‘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.
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.
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.
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...
