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November 24, 2020

Howard League exposes injustice of prison disciplinary system

The disciplinary system in prisons creates a pervasive sense of injustice, fuelling conflict and overcrowding, and should be overhauled, says the Howard League for Penal Reform.
February 25, 2020

Howard League launches justice and fairness in prisons programme

The Howard League will investigate how moving away from punishment can reduce conflict and violence, improve safety and well-being and better prepare people for release.
December 27, 2019

Execution in Japan 'a shameful stain on human rights record of Olympic hosts'

Executions in Japan are shrouded in secrecy, with prisoners typically given only a few hours’ notice and some given no warning at all before their death sentences are carried out.
October 3, 2018

International campaigners urge Ireland to repeal blasphemy laws

Activists have faced accusations of blasphemy in jurisdictions where it is a serious crime.
August 15, 2018

Report highlights 'severe toll of abusive drug laws in Georgia'

Public health approaches are needed to remedy the harmful use of drugs, says Human Rights Watch.
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.
April 28, 2018

Almost 1,000 years of additional imprisonment handed down in prisons in 2017

Almost a thousand years of additional imprisonment were imposed in 2017, as prisons increasingly resorted to draconian punishments.
March 22, 2018

Report on behaviour management of children and young people in custody

Inspectors say the management of children and young people in custody is too often overwhelmingly punitive, and the response to poor behaviour is to become locked in a negative cycle of ever greater restriction.
June 1, 2016

Added days of imprisonment lock in 'vicious cycle of punishment'

Over a million days – or 2,890 years – of additional imprisonment have been imposed on prisoners found to have broken prison rules in the past six years, Ministry of Justice figures have confirmed.
December 29, 2015

New report reveals rising levels of punishment in prison

Almost 160,000 days – or 438 years – of additional imprisonment were imposed on prisoners found to have broken prison rules last year, a report published by the Howard League for Penal Reform has revealed.