We've Got Your Boy

We’ve Got Your Boy: Episode 5, The Streets Don’t Love You

Exploring the role of love in addressing the issues that underpin serious youth violence, why plans to transform the youth justice system are stalling, and how other countries are miles ahead

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with barrister Lucy Reed, on opening the secretive family courts to scrutiny

School exclusion, child imprisonment and a state of punishment

People's History

‘An intolerable anachronism’: it’s 60 years since the last hanging took place in Bristol

On 17 December 1963, the final judicial execution in our city brought a long history of local executions to an end. We look back on what happened in Horfield in 1963, and the campaign to end the death penalty.

Adult man standing in front of empty wooden bookcases.

Interviews

Bristol’s top family judge stepping down, to launch project to keep people out of court

Opinion

‘This is how we can scrap crime without doing the time’

Police officer who Tasered Ras Judah in face cleared of misconduct

But Race Equality Commissioner says justice hasn’t been done for Judah Adunbi.

Policewoman who Tasered Ras Judah found not guilty of assault

But PC Claire Boddie faces disciplinary action

PC Claire Boddie on trial for tasering Ras Judah: the story so far

The police officer who tasered Easton man Ras Judah will appear in Salisbury Magistrates Court tomorrow (18 May) charged with common assault.

Private probation companies are sending more people to jail. But not for committing crimes

Outsourced providers in the Bristol area are under heavy fire for sucking up millions in public money, but failing on public safety and criminal justice. 

What’s the Human Rights Act ever done for you?

The Conservatives think it’s another unwanted European import. Will is a trainee solicitor at leading human rights and public law firm Deighton Pierce Glynn, Bristol.

Banged up in HMP Bristol

Adam Cantwell-Corn caught up with Governor of HMP Bristol, Andrea Albutt, and ex-con and prison campaigner, Ben Gunn, to find out whether one of society’s...