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Russell Webster ✍️@russwebt
15 Feb 2020
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Russell Webster ✍️@russwebt
Oct 27
The Emotional and Practical demands of working in a Women’s Independent Approved Premises
What's it like working in a women's probation hostel?
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Russell Webster ✍️@russwebt
Oct 26
HMYOI Werrington inspection
Relationships between staff and boys had improved and assaults had reduced. However, boys still spent far too long locked in their cells and education remained poor.
via @HMIPrisonsnews
hmiprisons.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/hmipris_report…
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Russell Webster ✍️@russwebt
Oct 26
HMP Bedford inspection
The prison had made good progress and was performing much better than in recent years, supported by stronger leadership and a more experienced group of prison officers.
via @HMIPrisonsnews
hmiprisons.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/hmipris_report…
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Russell Webster ✍️@russwebt
Oct 23
The latest criminal justice trends
Police try to ease pressure on CJS by increasing out of court resolutions but the average length of prison sentences rises, putting additional pressure on prison capacity.
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Russell Webster ✍️@russwebt
Oct 19
HMP Stocken inspection
"Despite committed leadership and some ambitious initiatives at this much-expanded prison, there were many significant problems."
via @HMIPrisonsnews hmiprisons.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/hmipris_report…
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Russell Webster ✍️@russwebt
Oct 15
A positive progress report for policing
Policing continues to face serious and enduring performance problems but the Starmer government made good progress on its key objectives
via @instituteforgov performance tracker
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Russell Webster ✍️@russwebt
Oct 14
Productivity improvement: The Justice Transcribe AI‑enabled transcription tool
First in a new @NAOorguk series of case studies on how to implement productivity improvements
nao.org.uk/insights/produ…
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Russell Webster ✍️@russwebt
Oct 14
Prison and probation services remain extremely poor but “this is a success story for the Starmer government. The situation when it came into office in was so bad that it is a real achievement to have got this far.“
via @instituteforgov
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Russell Webster ✍️@russwebt
Oct 8
Do please encourage your MP to learn more about the injustices of #IPP via this event in parliament on Tuesday 20 October
x.com/UNGRIPP/status…
UNGRIPP@UNGRIPP
Sep 21
We have a critical opportunity to reform IPP sentences while they're at the top of the political agenda

On 20th Oct, @UNGRIPP is bringing MPs together in Parliament

Please help. Tag your MP below or forward them this flyer to ask them to attend
@andyburnham @AlexJJNorris
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Russell Webster ✍️@russwebt
Oct 8
Tagging creates "false sense of assurance"
Criminal justice joint inspection of tagging finds electronic monitoring not keeping pace with its rapid expansion.
via @HMIProbation & @HMICFRS
russellwebster.com/tagging-create…
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Russell Webster ✍️@russwebt
Oct 7
Fixing prison resettlement
@Clinks_Tweets explores what is needed to support effective resettlement as the Sentencing Act is implemented.
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Russell Webster ✍️@russwebt
Oct 1
The disproportionate impact on women of Assaults Against an Emergency Worker
@WIP_live report finds the offence of Assault on an Emergency Worker is sweeping women into the criminal justice system who should not be there.
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Russell Webster ✍️@russwebt
Sep 30
#HiddenHeroesDay
Today is Hidden Heroes Day when the @ButlerTrust celebrates all the unseen work with goes in our prisons, IRCs, probation and youth justice services.
hiddenheroes.uk/hiddenheroesda…
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Russell Webster ✍️@russwebt
Sep 28
While violent offenders walk free, these prison cells lie empty
@DannyShawNews explains a number of factors exacerbating the prison capacity crisis

telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09/2…
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Russell Webster ✍️@russwebt
Sep 28
There are 87,499 people in prison today, an increase of 254 on last week and the highest figure since last November.
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Russell Webster ✍️@russwebt
Sep 28
Podcast: Escaping the prison capacity "doom loop" - The @TransformJust1 Podcast featuring @EnverSol & Cassia Rowaland from @instituteforgov
open.spotify.com/episode/53SEe9…
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Russell Webster ✍️@russwebt
Sep 28
Changing the script
A co-produced leaflet to help people think through the different options for using medication to help get off opioids from #livedexperience team at @RevDoors
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Russell Webster ✍️@russwebt
Sep 25
Take part in an @RevDoors study to inform the design of a gender specific approach to working with women in the justice system. We are looking to speak to women with experience of remand or recall (can be both) in the last 18 months.
revolving-doors.org.uk/research-parti…
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UNGRIPP@UNGRIPP
Sep 24
CCRC refers nine more indeterminate sentence (IPP and DPP) cases to the Court of Appeal.’

ccrc.gov.uk/news/ccrc-refe…
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Russell Webster ✍️@russwebt
Sep 25
Staff shortages hamper probation public protection work
@HMIProbation finds staff shortages mean public protection work is often sub-standard.
russellwebster.com/staff-shortage…
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