Race & Justice: A joint response to the Sentencing Review

There was one glaring omission from the Independent Sentencing Review’s final report, race. Despite the hours and hours of consultation and mobilising of evidence on the part of the Black and global majority led organisations and their allies, and despite the entrenched racial disparities within our criminal justice system, the report did not acknowledge them, or develop recommendations designed to tackle racial inequities in sentencing policy.

Clinks, Black Men 4 Change, FORWARD, Together Women and the Reducing Reoffending Third Sector Advisory Group (RR3) have responded to this omission. We are now urging the Lord Chancellor to consider recommendations from a joint report on tackling racial disparities in the criminal justice system, which has been shared with the Sentencing Review team, and factor them into the Government’s response.