John Podmore archive

‘We need to talk about sexual violence in prisons’

• John Podmore
• 27 Jun
• Prisons

‘You get what you pay for. The justice system needs constant investment’

• John Podmore
• 22 Jun
• Prisons

As prisons face their biggest crisis, why are we spending £250m on a titan jail?

• John Podmore
• 27 May
• News, Prisons

Let’s lock up those we are afraid of, not the ones we’re mad at

• John Podmore
• 17 May
• Prisons

Renationalising probation service is a start – but it must learn from past mistakes

• John Podmore
• 16 May
• Prisons, Probation

‘Serious organised crime is seriously well organised in prison’

• John Podmore
• 27 Feb
• News, Prisons

Is it really acceptable for prisoners to live like this in 2017?

• John Podmore
• 11 Oct
• News, Prisons

A farewell to NOMS: We need more than a name change

• John Podmore
• 10 Feb
• News, Prisons

Prisons and the wrong kind of criminal justice policy debate

• John Podmore
• 20 Mar
• News, Prisons

‘Fixing a problem that doesn’t exist’

• John Podmore
• 8 Apr
• COMMENT, News

Prisons & political testosterone

• John Podmore
• 28 Mar
• COMMENT

On Oakwood and our obsession with incarceration

• John Podmore
• 8 Jan
• COMMENT, News

Wrong on the inside, wrong on the outside

• John Podmore
• 22 Oct
• COMMENT, News

The flagship jail where the prisoners can get drugs but they can’t get soap

• John Podmore
• 11 Oct
• Criminal Justice, News

‘What stops 1,200 prisoners in Wormwood Scrubs walking out of the front gate?’

• John Podmore
• 2 Oct
• Civil liberties, Human rights, News, Prisons