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Prisons Minister James Timpson is looking at a wide range of tech ideas, including special smell detectors to replace sniffer ...
Lord Timpson told ITV News that short sentences are a 'disaster' for female prisoners, and that his government's reforms to ...
Cameras fitted in offenders’ homes and “smell detectors” to catch out drug use in and outside of prison could be introduced ...
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Lord Timpson is widely known for training and employing ex-prisoners in his shops. He also chairs the Prison Reform Trust, and earlier this year he said publicly that too many people are being ...
Lord Timpson, the former chief executive of Timpson, a shoe repair and key-cutting business, said: “Serious organised crime is a big problem, a huge problem, ...
In light of the Gauke sentencing review, prisons minister Lord Timpson explains why, to end the perma-crisis in our justice system, we must now embark on the largest expansion of jail places since ...
Lord Timpson was speaking to the Politics Hub as the government announced a 10-year prison capacity plan - including plans "to build the 14,000 places the last government failed to deliver".
Lord Timpson refutes claims that gangs are in charge of some of Britain's biggest jails, but acknowledges that serious organised crime is the one thing that "keeps me awake at night".
We spoke to the Prisons, Probation and Reducing Reoffending Minister, Lord Timpson. With the prison population now higher than when he started, we asked him what’s going wrong.
Lord Timpson spoke to the Mirror in South East London at the HQ of The Clink, which teaches prisoners and ex-offenders culinary skills. He emphasised the importance of employment in helping people ...
Lord Timpson said it was "a conversation" he was having across the whole public sector. He said that some departments - like the Ministry of Justice - already hired "people with prison experience" in ...