PRISONS AND THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE WOOLF REPORT
Parliamentary excerpt
That this House notes that on 31st January 2001, Lord Woolf, the Lord Chief Justice, will commemorate the 10th anniversary of the submission of his Report on the Strangeways Riot by delivering the Prison Reform Trust Annual Lecture; notes that the Report recommended the stabilising of the prison population, improving prison regimes and establishing community prisons; notes further that despite these recommendations, the prison population has increased by in excess of 15,000 in the last 10 yea...