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Westminster Hall debate on Imprisonment for Public Protection (#IPP) Sentences, @CommonsJustice report and Government response – Thursday 27 April 2023: highlights 🧵 1/44
Opening the debate @CommonsJustice chair @neill_bob explains #IPP sentences were abolished in 2012 mainly because “far more people fell within the scope of the scheme than had been the political intention”, but Govt “did not deal with those who were already serving sentences”2/44
“621 of those prisoners are at least 10 years over their tariff and 222 of those received a tariff of less than two years” @neill_bob reveals – “five times longer than the index sentence that … the judge who heard the facts thought was the appropriate tariff for the offence”3/44
🚨CASE UPDATE: Last week, a federal judge approved the final Settlement Agreement and Consent Decree in Giles County, #TN ➡️ civilrightscorps.org/wp-content/upl…
This means:
🚫Giles must stop pay-only probation
🚫The county can’t collect $ from people who need gov. assistance or are indigent
🚫Giles must recall outstanding misdemeanor probation warrants
🚫 Limits enforcement of drug tests & other harsh conditions.
🚫Giles must stop pay-only probation
🚫The county can’t collect $ from people who need gov. assistance or are indigent
🚫Giles must recall outstanding misdemeanor probation warrants
🚫 Limits enforcement of drug tests & other harsh conditions.
In 2018 we challenged Giles County’s unconstitutional private probation system and its contracts with outside companies. The companies made all of their money from the fees paid by people on misdemeanor #probation.
mainstreet-nashville.com/ap/state/giles…
mainstreet-nashville.com/ap/state/giles…
I hope you'll join me at 2pm to look at Juvenile Corrections
THINKING CHALLENGE: Does the Juvenile Justice System have a responsibility to keep kids out of a punitive system?
#CRJ107 #CommunityBasedCorrections
THINKING CHALLENGE: Does the Juvenile Justice System have a responsibility to keep kids out of a punitive system?
#CRJ107 #CommunityBasedCorrections
Let's start by testing our knowledge of teens today. Do you believe we can better understand age groups by generational differences?
#CRJ107 #CommunityBasedCorrections
#CRJ107 #CommunityBasedCorrections
0/ Thread:🧵 Tomorrow - 26th June is the day in which probation services in England and Wales will re-unified after the split into public and private sector delivery under Transforming Rehabilitation reforms #probation #TransformingRehabilitation
1/ @ProbationJournal has extensively covered these reforms from a range of perspectives, including critical analysis on the rationale for reform, the underpinning evidence and the impacts on service users, staff and partner agencies including the voluntary and community sector.
2/ We published a special issue in 2016 – Transforming Rehabilitation: Reflections two years on: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…
As @MeekMill celebrates the end of a long legal saga, we applaud him for using his case to bring attention to the broken probation/parole system. His case shows that what's meant as alternative to incarceration often acts as a feeder to prison. @REFORM #Justice4Millions #FreeMeek
@MeekMill @REFORM A quarter of all state prison admissions in America are the result of technical violations to #probation and #parole, such as missed paperwork or a failed drug test, according to @CSGJC
This is not what the system was intended for. @REFORM @MeekMill
This is not what the system was intended for. @REFORM @MeekMill
@MeekMill @REFORM @CSGJC We want to see the number of people on probation/parole reduced & the focus on promoting rehabilitation and success for individuals/communities.
Learn more about @MeekMill’s journey to this moment in our podcast interview with him: arnoldventures.org/podcasts/proba… @REFORM #Justice4Meek
Learn more about @MeekMill’s journey to this moment in our podcast interview with him: arnoldventures.org/podcasts/proba… @REFORM #Justice4Meek
In other #procurement news, @BorisJohnson revealed that he views the £250bn of government procurement as a cash cow to fund his other policy promises through "savings" 💰
Here's why we @reformthinktank think this is awful procurement policy....
news.sky.com/story/the-full…
Here's why we @reformthinktank think this is awful procurement policy....
news.sky.com/story/the-full…
First, procurement is already strained by factors including poor supplier-purchaser relationships and bad contracting 📜
(see @Ameyplc's issue with Birmingham city council )
(see @Ameyplc's issue with Birmingham city council )
Second, with the renationalisation of some services going ahead, procurement spend will be higher as both transition costs and direct spend will increase (something I've written about before with @G4S and #probation)
reform.uk/the-reformer/w…
reform.uk/the-reformer/w…
So the part-privatisation of #probation as originally conceived is over. @benmatthewsed made the foolhardy mistake of asking for my thoughts so going to post a thread...
theguardian.com/society/2018/j…
theguardian.com/society/2018/j…
1/ This was a terrible idea and seemingly every academic and practitioner in probation thought so. The marketisation was meant to use a "Payment by Results" system similar to another of Grayling's Greatest Hits, The Work Programme...
2/ CRC owners would be paid under on the basis of reductions in reconviction (which ≠ reoffending, but anyway...). They started 2 pilots for this 'payment by results' approach (notably at Doncaster prison) but they had poor results and weren't really finished before TR began
