In Dyfed-Powys, they have cut top salaries and commissioned specialists to improve results.
The first speech by a Prime Minister in over 20 years dedicated solely to prisons sets out the Government’s reform agenda.
The Psychoactive Substances Bill is properly intended to outlaw dangerous substances. But it will also wrongly affect this benign sex aid.
A model from abroad about how to deal with sugar problems without taxing it.
Gove’s drive for better treatment and rehabilitation offers another opportunity for radical Conservative reform.
A former Conservative Parliamentary Candidate goes to find out what the anti-Tory protesters at the party’s annual conference really have to say for themselves.
“We accept that drugs are risky, but there are lots of things in society that are risky… but we don’t stop people doing those. We let people make informed decisions.”
It is obscene that people have been left in limbo and handed cash rather than given help for their problems.
If the trend of the last decade continues, it won’t be long before America has a million active heroin users.
The pace of innovation is now so fast that the authorities have trouble keeping up with it.
A blanket ban may seem disproportionate, but is necessary to stay ahead of the chemists and suppliers who deal in these substances.
Just under a third of prisoners say it is easy to get drugs in prison. Seven per cent say they have developed an addiction while incarcerated.
Conventional courts focus on the crime being tried, when the real problem that needs to be addressed lies within the individual who committed it.
The leading addiction expert Dr Robert Lefever says the Government’s proposal is right.
In the areas of serious organised crime, counter-terrorism, money laundering and drugs and people trafficking, there is hugely fruitful EU-wide cooperation.