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Frances Crook always thought that her '"Crook" had more to do with the tool of choice for shepherds than criminality.
BBC: News - Today - When the name fits the job
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Frances Crook, chief executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform, said it was "great news" that Ashfield would not hold youths.
BBC: MP Steve Webb calls for Ashfield prison consultation
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Frances Crook, director of the Howard League, said boredom, isolation and lack of meaningful activity played a role in many of the deaths.
BBC: Overcrowding 'encouraging suicide'
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Frances Crook, of the Howard League for Penal Reform, said the deaths could have been avoided if the boys had received non-custodial punishments.
BBC: Call for inquiry after teenagers' custody deaths
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Its director Frances Crook, said the revised figures were "conveniently just below the number of spaces they will create through their Titan prison building programme".
BBC: Prison estimates revised downward
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But Frances Crook, from the Howard League for Penal Reform, said the "worrying" inspection report reveals HMP Gloucester needs "urgent action to overcome major problems".
BBC: Gloucester Prison
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Frances Crook, chief executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform, said a reduction in the number of prison officers was putting prisoners and staff at risk.
BBC: Male prison assaults 'rise by a third' in London
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Frances Crook, chief executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform, said the government's decision to hand over prisons to the private sector had been "a mistake of Olympic proportions".
BBC: G4S loses Wolds prison contract
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"I don't think my surname has ever had any influence on me... but that's the one everybody laughs about, " says Frances Crook, chief executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform.
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"Two years ahead of a general election campaign, the justice secretary is giving his desire to 'sound tough' a higher priority than giving taxpayers value for money or protecting public safety, " said the charity's chief executive, Frances Crook.
BBC: Seven prison closures in England announced
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"This judgment confirms what we have been saying for a long time, and what the government has now recognised - Ashfield is no place for a child, " said Frances Crook, chief executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform, which represented all seven claimants.
BBC: Ashfield young offenders' punishment ruled 'unlawful'