Gemma Abbott
@gem_abbott
Legal Director @TheHowardLeague. Former Legal Director @GoodLawProject. ‘That period woman’ of Free Periods/Red Box Project. Views my own. She/her🏴
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18-10-2009 13:18:01
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A really powerful documentary, including deeply personal testimonies from Roderic Russell, Tommy Nicol and others, that makes clear the significant personal cost of IPP sentences.
Justice Committee has secured a debate on 27th April on our IPP report.
bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…
Responsibility for the Windrush compensation scheme must be transferred to an independent body.
Previous failure to do so has only compounded the injustices that have been dealt by the Home Office, as is again evidenced in this damning new report from Human Rights Watch 👇
Constant demand for more prison places, more police - but it doesn’t work for public protection or re-conviction rates
We need to redirect billions being ploughed into the system - look at youth services, mental health services, refuges etc
👏 Deborah Coles #ReimagineJustice
Shocking stats from Keir Monteith KC at APPG Race & Community
Quoting his report on racism in the justice system (👇), he reminded us that 95% of legal professionals surveyed said racial bias plays some role in the processes or outcomes of the justice system 😩
manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/…
We need “systemic and transformative change” says Deborah Coles APPG Race & Community, calling for a diversion of resources “away from policing and the criminal justice system, and into communities”
#ReimagineJustice
Baroness Casey’s four tests for institutional racism in the Met Police exist in every single police force across the country - Abimbola Johnson is on maternity leave at APPG Race & Community
… If we want to tackle systemic racism, we need to “reimagine crime and reimagine justice”
#ReimagineJustice
