Who We Lock Up and Why

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From MOJUK
“Who we Lock up and Why. From the Dangerous and Difficult to the Innocent.”
Public Meeting Hosted by Progressing Prisoners Maintaining Innocence
Thursday 6th July 2017
Free entry from 6pm. Meeting 6.30- 8pm
BPP University (Waterloo Lecture Theatre) 137 Stamford St, Lambeth, London SE1 9NN
Keynote Speaker: John Podmore; professor of applied social sciences at the University of Durham, freelance criminal justice consultant and former prison governor (HMP Brixton). He is the author of Out of Sight Out of Mind: Why Britain’s Prisons Are Failing.

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