Jon Collins is deputy director of the Police Foundation
November 2013
Second thoughts
Elected police commissioners still have much to prove
Jon Collins
Jon Collins: Second thoughts: It is not easy to measure the impact the commissioners have made in their first year. And the public doesn't understand the new role
January 2010
liberty central
Tories locked in a jail-focused mindset
Jon Collins
Jon Collins: The Conservatives have rightly shelved plans for more prison places, yet their other policies haven't taken account of this
November 2009
Chasing headlines won't cut knife crime
Jon Collins
liberty central
Former prisoners have the right to write
Jon Collins
December 2008
Prison reform
Battle of the Titans
Jon Collins: In the face of opposition from experts the British government may be reconsidering its plan to build three large new prisons
September 2008
Prison by numbers
Jon Collins
There's no sense in the short sharp shock
Jon Collins
July 2008
Clash of the Titans
Jon Collins
Jon Collins: Smaller prisons work better – but that hasn't stopped the government forging ahead with its plans for mega-jails
