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4WardEver Campaign UK |
| 4WardEver maintains this website and other services to provide profiles, news, event details, resources and useful information, appeals, and photo galleries in relation to deaths in custody and other injustices. |
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Action for Prisoners Families |
| Action for Prisoners Families promotes the just treatment of prisoners families by the prison system and society across the UK. It encourages the development of, and acts as a voice for, organisations providing support to these families.
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Campaign Against Prison Slavery |
| Fighting to end forced labour in British prisons |
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Centre for Crime and Justice Studies |
| The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies (CCJS) is a charity which aims to inform and educate about all aspects of crime and the criminal justice system from an objective standpoint, and in accordance with the values of the Centre. We hope to encourage and facilitate healthy debate and understanding of the complex nature of issues concerning crime. |
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Churches Criminal Justice Forum |
| A network of churches in the UK and Ireland that promotes awareness of prison issues among Christians, supports Christians working in the criminal justice system, and promotes community projects to reduce re-offending. |
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CLINKS |
| The national umbrella body for organisations that work with prisoners, at prisons and with probation services |
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Commission on English Prisons |
| This independent Commission will look at the driving forces influencing change and practice including legislation, politics and the media. It will consider the principles, purpose and limits of a penal system and how it should sit alongside other social policy strategies.
The Commission will prompt public debate using local and national media, consultation meetings with key players, seminars and public events including evidence sessions in public, feature articles, consultation papers, website consultations/questionnaires and other ways of engaging with people.
Commissioners will make visits to explore new ideas and where effective and systemic change has been achieved. Final report will be published in 2009.
The Commission would like to thank all the trusts and individuals who have supported its work by giving their time and expertise and financial support. We would like to take this opportunity of thanking the Law Society Charity for its generous grant. |
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Criminal Justice Alliance |
| The Criminal Justice Alliance (formerly the Penal Affairs Consortium) is a coalition of organisations committed to improving the criminal justice system. It has 47 members, including voluntary sector service providers, campaigning organisations, staff associations and trade unions, bringing together a wide range of organisations with the potential to influence policy and practice in the criminal justice system. |
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Howard League for Penal Reform |
| The Howard League for Penal Reform is the oldest penal reform charity in the UK. It was established in 1866 and is named after John Howard, one of the first prison reformers. The Howard League is entirely independent of government and is wholly funded by voluntary donations. |
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INNOCENT |
| INNOCENT is a Manchester-based organisation which supports and campaigns for innocent people in prison.
INNOCENT is made up of families, friends and supporters of wrongly convicted prisoners who have come together in order to help each other. It is an independent organisation. |
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INQUEST |
| Campaigns against deaths in custody, and offers free advice to bereaved families and friends, lawyers, policy-makers and the public |
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International Centre for Prison Studies |
| The International Centre for Prison Studies seeks to assist governments and other relevant agencies to develop appropriate policies on prisons and the use of imprisonment. It carries out its work on a project or consultancy basis for international agencies, governmental and non-governmental organisations |
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Investigating Prison Labour |
| This web site is the result of a three year investigation by two freelance journalists into the contracts private companies hold with prisons for inmates to carry out work |
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JUSTICE |
| JUSTICE is an all-party law reform and human rights organisation working to improve the legal system and the quality of justice |
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Justice Research Consortium |
| The Justice Research Consortium was founded on September 06, 2001, bringing together crime justice professionals and police chiefs in a British Government-funded program to test Restorative Justice as a strategy to reduce crime.
The programme aims to establish whether restorative justice approaches applied pre-sentence and post-sentence lead to a reduction in re-offending rates and increase victim satisfaction with the process. To date, RJ has been used in youth crime, but for the first time, this project will be focused on adult offenders. |
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Law Commission |
| The Law Commission is the statutory independent body created by the Law Commissions Act 1965 to keep the law under review and to recommend reform where it is needed. |
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Liberty |
| Liberty is a leading human rights and civil liberties organisations. It was founded as the National Council for Civil Liberties in 1934 and has campaigned for equal rights for over 70 years.
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Make Justice Work |
| Make Justice Work is not about being liberal or lenient; it is about calling for robust alternatives to custody, for less serious offences, which are proven to be more effective at reducing criminal behaviour, increasing public safety and offering much better value for money. In other words, it is about calling for a penal and criminal justice system that works. |
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Miscarriages of Justice UK (MOJUK) |
| "Never be silent whenever wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented" Elie Wiesel.
MOJUK Aims and Objectives -
It is easy to go from cradle to the grave with the belief that the law protects us all equally, that the law prevents the government from violating the rights of the people, or that judges will protect the rights of all who come before them.
"The courtroom, one of the supposed bastions of democracy, is essentially a tyranny. The judge is Monarch. He is in control of the evidence, the witnesses, the questions, and the interpretation of law." - Historian Howard Zinn, "Declarations of Independence" (1990)
Millions of people in the UK, learn about the law from school, college, what they get from the media.
The proper place to learn about the law is in a courtroom, where the proverbial sh*t hits the fan. It is entirely possible to read numerous legal textbooks, go into a courtroom, see what is happening and be totally stunned by the differences between what the law says, and what the law does, daily.
People observing the process of courts for the first time are, end up saying, again and again, "They cannot do that!", only to recognize that they are doing it, and continue to do so.
The Crown Prosecution Service, who prosecute all criminal trials, in the court room are not concerned with finding the truth, but assigning blame. |
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Nacro |
| The Nacro vision is a safer society where everyone belongs, human rights are respected and preventing crime means tackling social exclusion and re-integrating those who offend. Look here for information on disclosure. They also have a resettlement helpline |
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National Association for Youth Justice |
| The National Association for Youth Justice was established in Britain in the early 1990s.
The Association operates as a campaigning, training and membership organisation with an overarching philosophy and policy regarding the youth justice system. |
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No More Prison |
| No More Prison is a new activists organisation being set up to campaign against mass incarceration. The homepage always displays an accurate estimate of the UK prison population
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Prison Advice & Care Trust (PACT) |
| The Prison Advice & Care Trust (pact) is an independent charity which supports people affected by imprisonment. They work with children and families of prisoners, and with prisoners inside and on release. They want a safer, more humane society. |
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Prison Reform Trust |
| Partnered UNLOCK in the Votes for Prisoners campaign. The best place to go for research and information on the UK penal system. |
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Rethinking Crime & Punishment |
| A strategic initiative to raise the level of public debate about the use of prison and alternative forms of punishment in the UK. Another great information source.
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Rethinking Crime & Punishment |
| The Rethinking Crime and Punishment programme closed in December 2008. This website acts as a legacy for the work that RCP supported. |
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SAFARI (Supporting All Falsely Accused with Reference Information) |
| The name SAFARI stands for Supporting All Falsely Accused with Reference Information. As the name suggests, we provide powerful and positive information that is likely to be of use to those who are in a position to make necessary changes in our investigative and judicial systems, those who have been affected by false accusations, including the family & friends of victims, and those who have suffered from being pressurised into making false accusations. |
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Smart Justice |
| SmartJustice is a unique resource that provides comprehensive information on initiatives that are effective in changing offenders behaviour, stopping crime before it starts and tackling the causes of crime for adults and young people. It is based at the Prison Reform Trust in London. |
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The Butler Trust |
| The Butler Trust is an independent charity which recognises excellence and innovation by people working with offenders in the UK. |
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The Centre for Social Justice |
| The prison reform policy group is sure that positive and progressive reform of the prison system is achievable. |
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The Miscarriages of Justice Organisation (Scotland) |
| The Miscarriages of Justice Organisation is a human rights organisation set up by Paddy Hill and John McManus who are dedicated to assisting innocent people both in prison and after their release. Our main objectives are to help counsel innocent people after they are released from prison and to gradually help them come to terms with the modern world. |
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Transition to Adulthood (T2A) |
| The T2A Alliance intends to raise awareness of the problems this group face and aims to secure policy change to improve their lives.
The T2A pilots have been established by the Barrow Cadbury Trust to test different approaches to improving services for young adult offenders. |
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Women in Prison |
| Women in Prison (WIP) was established in 1983 as a support and campaign group for women prisoners. WIP was led by its founder/Director Chris Tchaikovsky, herself a former prisoner, until her early death in 2002.
Throughout its life, WIP has worked to support women offenders in prison and on their release. We are committed to effecting change within the women’s prison system. We endeavour to listen to the unique experiences of women prisoners and make these experiences known. In doing so we hope a greater understanding of women and imprisonment will develop.
Today WIP provides a range of resettlement and education services that meet the specific needs of women in prison and after release across England |
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