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The Howard League for Penal Reform

September 11, 2019

Call for action to stop arrests of women for trivial offences

Police are arresting vulnerable women in the belief it well help them to get the support they need from other services, a cross-party panel of MPs and peers has found.
July 9, 2019

Howard League research finds children’s homes calling the police 200 times a year

Some children’s homes are calling the police repeatedly over matters that would never involve the police if they happened in a family home, says the Howard League.
August 13, 2018

Call to scrap additional days of imprisonment in England and Wales

The Howard League for Penal Reform says punishments totalling almost 1,000 years were handed down in 2017.
August 7, 2017

Big drop in number of children arrested by police

Arrests of children in England and Wales have fallen by 64 per cent in the last six years.
June 10, 2017

Call for government to act as recalls to prison soar

The number of people recalled to prison has soared following part-privatisation of the probation system
February 13, 2017

Prisons need profound culture change to prevent suicides

Prisons need a profound culture change to prevent people from losing their lives through suicide, according to a report published today (13 February 2017) by Centre for Mental Health and the Howard League for Penal Reform.
November 15, 2016

Watchdog report on children in custody

Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons’ report, Children in Custody 2015-16: an analysis of 12 to 18-year-olds’ perceptions of their experience in secure training centres and young offender institutions will be published today.
October 31, 2016

Prison statistics reveal 'bloodbath' of assaults, suicide and self-injury

The number of people dying in prison has risen by 21 per cent in a year as safety in jails deteriorates further and faster, figures seen by the Howard League for Penal Reform reveal.
August 31, 2016

Prison officer numbers fall again as major recruitment drive fails

The number of frontline officers working in public-sector prisons has fallen over the last year, despite Ministry of Justice plans to recruit additional staff to help respond to the highest levels of violence, suicide and self-injury since recording practices began.
August 17, 2016

Call to stop 'revolving door' to prison as recalls to custody soar

Against a backdrop of violence and deaths behind bars, the number of people in prison due to recall has soared by 15 per cent in a year and is now 55 times greater than it was in 1993, according to evidence being submitted to the United Nations by the Howard League for Penal Reform.