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“AI systems are only as objective as the data that feeds them.”

The View Magazine opinion piece by Verity Butler. As AI quietly enters the justice system, urgent questions are arising over fairness, transparency, and control. In recent months, the stealthy adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) within the UK’s criminal justice system has begun to attract sharper public scrutiny. Reports have revealed that the Ministry of Justice…
18 December 20250Comments

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When Complaints Vanish and Punishment Replaces Care: The Abuse of IEPs at Eastwood Park

The Incentives and Earned Privileges (IEP) scheme was introduced to encourage “good behaviour” in prisons. But in practice, “good behaviour” is a vague, patronising and fundamentally subjective concept, one that gives frontline staff enormous discretionary power. What counts as “good” too often depends not on clear rules, but on the personal attitudes, frustrations or prejudices…
18 December 20250Comments

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Trauma and Hope

Science increasingly shows that hope is one of the most powerful emotions we possess. It shapes wellbeing, strengthens resilience, and buffers the long-term effects of trauma. But new research raises a crucial question: what if a traumatised brain can no longer access hope at all? Groundbreaking studies at Yale University reveal that PTSD alters the…
11 December 20250Comments

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Lord Timpson and the Push to Rethink Women’s Imprisonment: The Women’s Justice Board

The launch of the Women’s Justice Board on 21 January 2025 marks a significant moment in rethinking how the UK treats women in the criminal justice system. Campaigners have stressed that women’s offending is often rooted in trauma, domestic abuse, poverty and addiction. Prisons rarely address these issues and often deepen the harm. Chaired by…
10 December 20250Comments

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Literature That Transforms: How Stories Illuminate the Realities of Imprisonment

What can a metamorphosing beetle and a kidnapped art student teach us about the lived experience of incarceration? In this powerful literary essay, El Jamieson explores how two classic works – Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis and John Fowles’ The Collector – reveal uncomfortable truths about isolation, gender, and the dehumanising nature of imprisonment. At first…
6 December 20250Comments

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