Phillip Lee: The Birmingham prison scandal. And why it’s time to roll back the frontiers of PFI in our public services

We spend £251 billion each year on outsourcing and contracting without evidence that this is a good deal for taxpayers.

James Frayne: Healthcare, crime and justice, quality retirement and the provinces. Four priorities for the Centre-Right

It ought to be focused on those areas that the public really care about and where it can meaningfully offer useful policy ideas.

Edward Boyd: Prison reform is not an option, it is a necessity

The majority of those who leave prison will be convicted of new crimes within a year – that is a shameful failure.

Iain Duncan Smith: Family breakdown is too big a problem to ignore any longer

Children lose out, and there’s a knock-on elder care, too.

Simply throwing money at our broken prison system won’t deliver the required reform

Whether Truss’s inspiration is May on policing or Gove on schools, the only way ahead is a challenging radicalism.

Charlotte Pickles: Localism is needed for a rehabilitation revolution

All prison and probation services should be fully devolved to Police and Crime Commissioners.

Philippa Stroud: Reforming prisoners, strengthening society. At last, here is a plan to make jail an engine of social justice

Dame Sally Coates’s review, published this week and accepted yesterday by Michael Gove, sets out the right forward.

Jonathan Clifton: Where next for Police and Crime Commissioners?

The first wave of PCCs proved their critics wrong. The second wave must seek to expand their role.

Alex Burghart: Gove aims to bring an education revolution to the aid of prisoners

The Justice Secretary’s speech offers hope for those who want to see lower crime, and lives put back on track.

Rupert Oldham-Reid: Ending the deadly trade in ‘legal highs’

A blanket ban may seem disproportionate, but is necessary to stay ahead of the chemists and suppliers who deal in these substances.

Interview: Grayling – As Lord Chancellor, “it’s an advantage not being a lawyer”

“So you don’t arrive at a decision because you’re a barrister and therefore you favour the bar or because you’re a solicitor and therefore you favour the solicitors’ firms.”

Chris Grayling MP: My plan to transform the rehabilitation of prisoners, and make it work better

Today we are announcing new contracts with private and voluntary providers to ensure that no new offender will be left stranded with no help when they leave prison.

Cameron says that too many politicians have offered “easy answers”. True. So where are the hard ones?

As next May draws nearer, no political party is yet facing up to the scale of challenge of deficit reduction.

Edward Boyd: Tory Reform 5) Chris Grayling – His reform of the probation service is desperately needed

The CSJ has long witnessed the incredible power of the best voluntary organisations to transform lives.

The best reason to vote Conservative. Tory reformers are delivering Grown-Up Government.

Gove, May, IDS, Grayling, Maude. Unlike the minnows of Labour and UKIP, these are serious people delivering serious change for serious times.