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Why the New Hillsborough Law Could Be a Game-Changer for Truth and Justice

This month, the UK government introduced landmark legislation widely known as the Hillsborough Law; a long-fought legacy for the 97 lives lost in the Hillsborough disaster, and a promise to prevent institutional cover-ups of state wrongdoing ever again. Formally called the Public Office (Accountability) Bill, the law is being hailed by campaigners as transformative: it…
21 November 20250Comments

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Formal Complaint has been lodged with Chief Probation Officer Kim Thornden-Edwards and Lord Timpson: Misconduct and Abuse of Power by Probation Officer Natasha Price, HMP Eastwood Park

By Feminist Justice Coalition At HMP Eastwood Park, a troubling case has emerged that raises urgent questions about accountability, human rights, and the treatment of vulnerable women in custody. A formal complaint has been lodged against Probation Officer Natasha Price, alleging persistent misconduct, obstruction of healthcare access, and abuse-paralleling behaviour in her supervision of Ms…
18 November 20250Comments

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Broken Supervision: When the Probation Service Can’t Do Its Job

The picture looks stark. The HM Prison & Probation Service (HMPPS) supervises around 241,540 people in England and Wales. Yet it only has 5,636 full‐time equivalent probation-officer grade staff. The ratio is plainly unmanageable. According to the National Audit Office (NAO), only around one-quarter of probation services’ performance targets were met in the past 12…
18 November 20250Comments

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Queer, Imprisoned, Unbroken: Stories of Resistance from Nigeria’s Justice System

In a country where LGBTQ+ identity is criminalized, LBQ+ Nigerian Women Navigating the Justice System by Obinna Tony-Francis Ochem brings us face-to-face with the brutal realities endured by Aluka Obioma Joan and Maryam Yau. Joan, a trans woman, was imprisoned and denied vital hormone therapy, subjected to sexual exploitation by prison officers. Maryam, a lesbian…
17 November 20250Comments

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Passing the baton – or dropping it? How visa-cutting threatens a prison officer workforce in crisis

Last year the recruitment figures were billed as a success: more than 700 Nigerians recruited into UK prisons, accounting for nearly one-third of overseas applications into the service and a 12 % share of hires. The headline read well. But the picture today is very different—and hugely worrying. Because while the service faced deep staffing…
16 November 20250Comments

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