Nick Hardwick
Nick Hardwick is Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons. He was appointed to the role in July 2010
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This week's big questions: What is prison for? Do we want super-jails?
01 February 2013 04:46 PM
This week's big questions are answered by Nick Hardwick, Chief Inspector of Prisons
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Disability campaigners celebrate 'victory' after government rethink over plans to make it more difficult to claim disability benefits
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'Jail reckless bankers': Report urges the Government to introduce new criminal offence for reckless management
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Breaking the Silence: In the reality of occupation, there are no Palestinian civilians – only potential terrorists
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We never knew Nigella Lawson - and we still don’t
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Vice pulls 'breathtakingly tasteless' fashion shoot glorifying the suicides of famous female authors from Sylvia Plath to Virginia Woolf
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