As ever, I learned a lot during this podcast - not only about the serious failings in our current approach to women in conflict with the law but how to go about creating a more just and effective system. Do have a listen to two very well informed contributors sharing their thoughts and experience.

Well worth a listen. Women’s prisons are genuinely appalling and getting worse. They receive very little press coverage despite being more violent than men’s prisons and having a self-harm rate equivalent to around 6 incidents per prisoner per year

Young Adults in Custody- Yet Another Challenge for Prisons @robroballen.bsky.social on violent and out of control HMP Swinfen Hall reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/09/youn...

No go areas for staff too scared to challenge young prisoners, uncontrolled meal queues leaving some with no food. Grim watchdog report on HMP Swinfen Hall. reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/09/youn...

Inspectors blame Ministry of Justice for infrastructure failings resulting in the closure of the Secure School. reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/09/a-bi...

Inspectors blame Ministry of Justice for infrastructure failings resulting in the closure of the Secure School. reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/09/a-bi...

As fires in prisons rise, efforts to ensure safety are limited and slow. Todays watchdog report on HMP Styal is a case in point. reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/09/more...

As fires in prisons rise, efforts to ensure safety are limited and slow. Todays watchdog report on HMP Styal is a case in point. reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/09/more...

Prison Fire Safety Delay ? @robroballen.bsky.social on how HMPPS is still failing to make all prison cells safe from fire reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/09/pris...

One in four prison cells dont meet fire safety standards and 6,000 still wont by end of 2027. The red line about not using non compliant cells after that deadline no longer looks so red. reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/09/pris...

Didnt expect much in the way of sunsets in Norfolk but got a good one in Sheringham

The single justice procedure has been used extensively to prosecute Covid rulebreakers - but was this really a fair way of dealing with the issue? @kirstybrimelow.bsky.social discusses in the latest episode of the Transform Justice Podcast ⬇️ 🔗🎧Catch up on the full episode now: pod.fo/e/30221c

Will the first Secure School be the last? @robroballen.bsky.social on the multiple failings in the Children's and Young People's Secure Estate. www.russellwebster.com/will-the-fir...

The latest episode of the Transform Justice Podcast explores the ins and outs and failings of the controversial single justice procedure. Here @penelopegibbs.bsky.social discusses one particularly shocking case ⬇️ 🎧🔗Catch up on the full episode now: pod.fo/e/30221c

"A prisoner recently reported he saw a mouse actually giving birth in his cell" Rochester Jail Watchdog says vermin still a challenge with prisoners making barriers across cell door thresholds to try to keep mice out cloud-platform-e218f50a4812967ba1215eaecede923f.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/site...

Like Gauke’s review of sentencing and Leveson’s on the courts, Dame Anne Owers final report in the trilogy is stronger on diagnosing the problems than prescribing remedies reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/08/capa...

Find out more: 📖 Read our latest report: ‘Industrial-scale prosecution? Why the single justice procedure needs radical reform’ www.transformjustice.org.uk/publication/... 🎧 Listen to the latest Transform Justice Podcast episode on the single justice procedure: pod.fo/e/30221c 🧵[4/4]

Speed has replaced just decision making with the convey belt Single Justice Procedure (SJP) - reform is needed now. On this Transform Justice podcast, our Vice Chair Kirsty Brimelow KC discusses how the SJP works and what it means for people facing charges. Listen now ⬇️ lnkd.in/e4N4ADKm

Today's Prison Capacity Review is stronger on diagnosis than cure. It should have recommended bolder and more concrete measures to ensure a sustainable future. reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/08/capa...

Today's Prison Capacity Review is stronger on diagnosis than cure. It should have recommended bolder and more concrete measures to ensure a sustainable future. reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/08/capa...

Groundhog Week for Youth Custody @robroballen.bsky.social on the #UrgentNotification for Oakhill STC reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/07/grou...

Has the Sentencing Council overreacted to the new law on guidelines and pre sentence reports? I think so. reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/06/ex-a...

Yet more serious failings at G4S Secure Training Centre show chronic lack of progress in reforming youth custody over last decade reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/07/grou...

Yet more serious failings at G4S Secure Training Centre show chronic lack of progress in reforming youth custody over last decade reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/07/grou...

🎧Have you listened to our latest podcast episode yet? @kirstybrimelow.bsky.social joins @penelopegibbs.bsky.social & @robroballen.bsky.social to explore the single justice procedure and what it means for the vulnerable people who often fall victim of its impersonal nature. 🔗➡️ pod.fo/e/30221c

The very first podcast @penelopegibbs.bsky.social and I did more than 3 years ago was on the conveyor belt of the single justice procedure. Have a listen to the latest episode to find out what if anything has changed about it since then.

"It seems frankly absurd to negotiate a lease that has resulted in the prison being unusable for over a year while still having to pay rent". MPs press Ministry of Justice about HMP Dartmoor, closed for over a year because of levels of Radon gas committees.parliament.uk/publications...

Troubling data on fire safety in prisons reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/07/catc...

Troubling data on fire safety in prisons reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/07/catc...

Strange letter - in timing at least-from Justice Committee Chair ‪@hammersmithandy.bsky.social‬ to the Lord Chancellor voicing concern about recent & expected changes to prison recall. The recent ones are already law - Mr Slaughter voted in favour - and the expected ones arent yet published.

Strange letter - in timing at least-from Justice Committee Chair ‪@hammersmithandy.bsky.social‬ to the Lord Chancellor voicing concern about recent & expected changes to prison recall. The recent ones are already law - Mr Slaughter voted in favour - and the expected ones arent yet published.

Institutionalised child abuse? Dr Anne-Marie Day discusses solitary confinement for children in our must-listen latest podcast episode. 🎧🔗Catch up now: pod.fo/e/2eff5e

Worth a listen. Informative and engaging… 👇🏽

🚨NEW EPISODE 🚨 "Institutionalised abuse" is how some describe our treatment of children in custody. Dr Anne-Marie Day & Dr Laura Janes join us to discuss why children are detained & what it's like for a child. A vital listen for anyone concerned about youth justice! 🎧🔗 pod.fo/e/2eff5e

🎙️New episode of the Transform Justice Podcast coming tomorrow 👀 Featuring @laurajanes.bsky.social and @anne-marieday.bsky.social‬ alongside hosts @penelopegibbs.bsky.social‬ and Rob Allen, episode 48 explores the misuse - and overuse - of child imprisonment. Don't miss it - follow the podcast ⬇️

Has the Sentencing Council overreacted to the new law on guidelines and pre sentence reports? I think so. reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/06/ex-a...

Trained and experienced prison officers referred to police following unacceptable level of violence while searching at HMP/YOI Hindley. Startling disclosure from Independent Monitoring Board at the Wigan prison. reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/06/unac...

As usual, @robroballen.bsky.social has combed through IMB reports so you don’t have to and has spotted something really important and troubling.

Prison staff brought in to search cells used unacceptable violence. Hindley Governor has referrred the matter to the police says watchdog. reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/06/unac...

Prison staff brought in to search cells used unacceptable violence. Hindley Governor has referrred the matter to the police says watchdog. reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/06/unac...

An issue ignored is a crisis ensured 🆘 Could the prisons crisis finally push long-overdue justice reforms over the line? @theobserveruk.bsky.social’s Rachel Sylvester joins us to unpack the Sentencing Review and what it could mean for the future of criminal justice. 🎧 Listen now: pod.fo/e/2dc5c6

Looks like the new Secure School is facing the same problems that bedevil almost all hubristic attempts to "revolutionise" youth custody. Who'd have thunk it? reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/06/i-ha...

We reflected on the technical and political aspects of the Gauke review and response to it Will it stave off further prison capacity crises? Reduce sky high re-offending rates ? And halt competition to be toughest on crime? Listen to find out! open.spotify.com/episode/5uje...

Prison Service "failing to provide a decent environment for prisoners" at HMP Gartree as work starts on a new prison nearby. Independent Monitoring Board "raise the issue of a crumbling prison and inadequate healthcare every year, but nothing gets done.” imb.org.uk/news/hmp-gar...

There are good recommendations in the Gauke review but will Shabana Mahmood's partial acceptance of them threaten its primary aim- to ensure a sustainable prison population. reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/05/a-go...

The Sentencing Review: Three things to look out for reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/05/sent...

Today's HMP High Down watchdog report shows why heavily trailed "earned early release" will be hard for prisons to manage fairly and efficiently. cloud-platform-e218f50a4812967ba1215eaecede923f.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/site...

What can the prison system in England and Wales learn from the Netherlands? A country not long ago renting out its unused facilities to other countries is now having to consider putting mattresses in cells to increase its own capacity. reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/05/dutc...

Could a prison queue help avert the prison capacity crisis? It is in the Netherlands. reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/05/dutc...

💡What motivated the children who were swept up in the riots of summer 2024? And what should have happened to them? 🔗 Read our Insight by @penelopegibbs.bsky.social here: www.transformjustice.org.uk/news-insight...