Revolving Doors’ Policy Manager Kelly Grehan spent 20 years working as a probation officer. She explains why the recent proposed presumption against short sentences will have limited success without reforms to a struggling Probation Service. In my twenty years as a probation officer, I saw the...| Revolving Doors
One of the first acts of new Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood recognised that ‘our prisons are on the point of collapse’ as she announced that the Government will temporarily reduce the proportion of certain sentences served in prison from 50% to 40%. The Government has been clear this is a...| Revolving Doors