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Kelly is our Policy Manager. She works to coordinate our influencing and communications relating to policing and diversion, sentencing and probation, resettlement, multiple disadvantage, and systems change. Before joining Revolving Doors, Kelly spent nearly two decades working for the Probation...| Revolving Doors
The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities is developing a Local Government Outcomes Framework (LGOF) to bring together key data on local priorities. The aim is to provide a consistent way of understanding how councils and their partners are performing against national outcomes...| Revolving Doors
Pavan is our Chief Executive. She is an equalities and human rights expert and has worked across many sectors for more than 15 years. These have ranged from grassroots community organising to high level advocacy in the UK and internationally. Pavan has a special interest in criminal justice...| Revolving Doors
At Revolving Doors, we believe that the people most affected by policies and services should have a real... The post Why the English Devolution Bill must put lived experience at its heart appeared first on Revolving Doors.| Revolving Doors – Breaking the cycle of crisis and crime
After over 30 years of campaigning, the end of short sentences is a milestone – but this is just the first marker upon the long road to ending the revolving door. With a staggering cost of over £1billion per year, and reoffending rates of 55%, it has long been clear that short sentences are no...| Revolving Doors
Across England and Wales, our criminal justice system is straining at the seams. Courts are overwhelmed, prison populations are at an all-time high, and probation services are stretched to their limits. In this climate, it’s more important than ever to move away from approaches that blindly...| Revolving Doors
This month we held a forum with members to talk about diversion, coinciding with Lord Brian Leveson publishing his Independent Review into the Criminal Courts. As the review sets out, the Court system is in crisis: in December 2024, there were around 75,000 open cases in the Crown Court, and...| Revolving Doors
We champion solutions for justice reform that tackle the root causes of repeat, low-level crime and support people’s journeys towards better lives.| Revolving Doors
“If you took out people who shouldn’t be in prison because they should be on alternative sentences, we’d lose 75% of the prison system, overnight. Because we’re not sentencing the people, we’re sentencing the crime, and what it is the judges and magistrates are expecting the sentence people to...| Revolving Doors
I’ve experienced recall to prison a couple of times in my life. I will say that in the... The post “I was back on the wing for teatime”: Danny’s journey from unexpected recall to speaking in Westminster appeared first on Revolving Doors.| Revolving Doors – Breaking the cycle of crisis and crime
On 20 May 2025, Revolving Doors hosted a roundtable discussion exploring how we improve the effectiveness of community sentences for individuals caught in the revolving door. Those attending included civil servants and representatives from across the sector, including the Magistrates...| Revolving Doors
On 6 June 2025 Revolving Doors hosted a roundtable about the future of out-of-court diversion as part of... The post Smart justice, not soft justice: The case for expanding out-of-court diversion appeared first on Revolving Doors.| Revolving Doors – Breaking the cycle of crisis and crime
The Revolving Doors Academy enables our members to build the practical skills, confidence, and boundaries needed to become... The post The Revolving Doors Academy: Lived experience, leadership and learning appeared first on Revolving Doors.| Revolving Doors – Breaking the cycle of crisis and crime
June is Community Month, kicking off with Volunteers’ Week from 2 – 8 June. Our Member and Project Coordinator, Hannah, first joined us as a volunteer after completing a degree in Criminology in 2024. She reflects on her journey and the opportunities that volunteering can provide: Coming to...| Revolving Doors
I was a baby when I first went to prison. If somebody had been there, if maybe they... The post Breaking the cycle: The Sentencing Review marks a turning point – funding and collaboration will be key to its success appeared first on Revolving Doors.| Revolving Doors – Breaking the cycle of crisis and crime
Today is Stephen Lawrence Day 2025. This year’s theme is Knowledge Changes Everything. Following Ayesha and Kelly’s pieces, this is our third and final blog of the day from new lived experience member Natasha. Her story of persistence – continuing to seek opportunities for learning, combining...| Revolving Doors
Today is Stephen Lawrence Day 2025. Founded in memory of 18-year-old Stephen Lawrence who was murdered in a racist attack in April 1993, Stephen Lawrence Day is organised by the Stephen Lawrence Foundation to commemorate Stephen’s life and honour his legacy by empowering marginalised people...| Revolving Doors
If there is one thing that is part of the DNA of Revolving Doors, it is our lived experience forums. This is where we bring together people with lived experience, criminal justice practitioners and decision-makers, to coproduce innovative solutions to the revolving door of crisis and crime. The...| Revolving Doors
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
Revolving Doors recently hosted a session where our lived experience members spoke to a nation-wide group of Neurodiversity Support Managers (NSMs), who support neurodiverse people in prison to get the right access to support. Involvement Manager Harriet reflects on the importance of progress to...| Revolving Doors
The Sentencing Bill, with its intention to bring in a presumption against short custodial sentences, is currently making its way through Parliament. Meanwhile, the Sentencing Council has quietly undertaken a comprehensive consultation on their guidelines for community and custodial sentences, to...| Revolving Doors
