The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social Writer about law and policy at The Empty City blog and elsewhere.
About lore and culture at The Busy Town.
Birmingham/London. Janeite. #AVFC
www.theemptycity.com
(Account sometimes deactivated when not in use.)
Fergus McNeill @fergusmcneill.bsky.social Criminologist interested mainly in punishment, rehabilitation and reintegration… increasingly explored via creative methods. Also a singer-songwriter, when I can find the time.
Penelope @letempsviendra.bsky.social If I told you, you wouldn’t believe me.
Rick Edwards @rickedwards1.bsky.social Talks for a living
Andy Aitchison @andyaitchison.bsky.social Freelance documentary #photographer, working since 1991. Covering most subjects, Climate solutions, Unions, Campaigns, Social & Criminal Justice, specialise in photographing in UK prisons. Visit my website: www.andyaitchison.uk for more. 
Penelope Gibbs @penelopegibbs.bsky.social My passion is to improve UK justice. Lead charity www.transformjustice.org.uk (email there). Also visiting fellow
https://www.kellogg.ox.ac.uk/ and chair www.appropriateadult.org.uk
Armando Iannucci @aiannucci.bsky.social Words and smiles.Partridge,Thick of It,Veep,Death of Stalin, Dr Strangelove Taskmaster,Podcast #StrongMessageHere. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m0024cp6?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile Patron of Child Poverty Action Group, @cpaguk.bsky.social.
Hugo Rifkind @hugorifkind.bsky.social Writing in The Times Thursday and Saturday, talking on Times Radio Monday-Thursday. Also, other things. Latest novel, Rabbits, found here: https://amzn.eu/d/hUQTsSW
Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social Associate Political Editor @NewStatesman. Devout classicist, "indulgent editrix", at one point the only Ancient Greek teacher in South Korea
Zoe Williams @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social Guardian writer, but one time I said something inflammatory to the US right & they called me a Diseased Pitmommy. So that's what I go by now 
Gemma Buckland @doitjustice.bsky.social Director Do It Justice and Justice Futures. Criminal justice geek. Former adviser to Justice Select Committee. One time Clarice Starling wannabe. Views own. RTs not endorsement.
Shelagh Fogarty @shelaghfogarty.bsky.social Broadcaster, Journalist, lover of swimming.
Find me @LBC 1-4pm or anytime @globalplayer. For work enquiries contact yellowpoppymedia.com …
Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org The Resolution Foundation is an independent think-tank dedicated to lifting living standards in the UK.
Simon Hattenstone @shattenstone.bsky.social Guardian interviewer/features writer, with a thing for prison and miscarriages of justice (well not a thing for them as such, a thing for writing about them). Proud Mancunian/Salfordian. City fan of some vintage
Paul Johnson @pjtheeconomist.bsky.social From August, Provost, The Queen’s College, Oxford. Previously director, Institute for Fiscal Studies. Author “Follow the Money”
Philippa Budgen @philippabudgen.bsky.social Freelance Media Consultant for charities & campaigns.
Loves justice. Hates injustice. Reformed journalist. Sometimes found in cold water. 
George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social Ungainly on land
Crime Girl @crimegirl.co.uk “Well-known tweeting Barrister” Bar Council “Popular anonymous Barrister” Daily Mail “Possibly cabin crew” my neighbour
The Howard League @thehowardleague.bsky.social Building a more humane and effective response to crime.
Join: https://howardleague.org/membership/
Give: http://PayPal.Me/howardleague
The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social Wears a black cape and fights crime. Not Batman.
Sunday Times No.1 Bestselling author•The Secret Barrister•#FakeLaw•Nothing But The Truth•
Also writes thrillers. The Cut Throat Trial out now at all good bookshops.
Kill All The Lawyers coming Sept 2027…
Joanna Hardy-Susskind @joannahs.bsky.social Barrister. I defend people.
David Shipley @shipleywrites.bsky.social Did corporate finance, produced a film, committed a fraud. Served my time. Horrified by the prison system. I write and talk and try to change it.
Words in Inside Time, The Spectator, the i, amongst others.
david@david-shipley.com
Dr Jenny Pryboda @jennypryboda.bsky.social Forensic Psychologist 🧠⚖️
JENGbA 🦋 @jengba.bsky.social Joint Enterprise Not Guilty by Association. Common Law used against common people that makes no common sense. Official website www.jengba.co.uk
JanJengba 🦋 @janjengba.bsky.social JENGbA Co Founder fighting against the injustice of #jointenterprise #socialist (UK) @jengba.bsky.social www.jengba.com
No DM’s please …I don’t like being pestered by strangers 🤬
Shona Minson @shonaminson.bsky.social Women's Justice Board member
BBC New Generation Thinker
Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford
Family law/ criminal law intersections. Children's rights. Procedural Justice
Creative public engagement. Once upon a time I was a barrister
Gemma Abbott @gemabbott.bsky.social Legal Director @thehowardleague.bsky.social. Trustee @dignityindying.org.uk. Views my own. She/her 🏴
Jon Collins @jonbcollins.bsky.social Chief Executive of Prisoners’ Education Trust (@prisonersed.bsky.social) and criminal justice nerd.
UNGRIPP @ungripp.bsky.social UNGRIPP campaigns on behalf of everyone affected by the Indeterminate Sentence for Public Protection (IPP) in England and Wales.
Cambridge Decolonising Criminology Network @cambridgedcn.bsky.social PhD-led initiative at Cambridge’s Institute of Criminology, engaging with decolonial thoughts and perspectives. We seek to centre colonialism at the centre of contemporary debates and amplify subaltern, non-Western, and Indigenous voices in criminology.
@policefoundationuk.bsky.social @policefoundationuk.bsky.social The only independent think tank in the UK focused on improving policing. Hosted the Strategic Review of Policing https://www.police-foundation.org.uk/
Vicky Taylor @vickytaylor.bsky.social writing about the UK's criminalisation of asylum seeking · border criminologies · otherwise found in cold water somewhere
HMI Prisons @hmiprisonsnews.bsky.social Independent inspectorate reporting on conditions for and treatment of those in prisons, young offender institutions and immigration detention facilities.
Learn more at: https://hmiprisons.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/
David Gadd @profdavidgadd.bsky.social Professor of Criminology, University of Manchester
Natasha Porter OBE @natashaporter.bsky.social CEO and founder Unlocked Graduates
Board for Children’s Commissioner, Impetus, Get Further & The Times Crime and Justice commissioner. Young Australian of the year in the UK 2025.
Into all things education/prison reform/leadership
PJ Kirby @pjkkc.bsky.social KC at Gatehouse Chambers but as likely to be found in the Alps or Stamford Bridge. Warden at STwSS 
Richard Garside @richardjgarside.bsky.social Director @crimeandjustice | Law and justice | Materialist not idealist | Facts not feelings | My views, not my employer’s
Cassie Edmiston @cassieedmiston.bsky.social Head of Fundraising and External Affairs at Prisoners' Education Trust
Prisoners' Education Trust @prisonersed.bsky.social Prisoners' Education Trust (PET) offers distance learning courses and advice and guidance to people in prison. We use our policy and advocacy work to improve prison education.
Support us here: prisonerseducation.org.uk/donate
David Kendall @manwithbooks.bsky.social Big Issue #changemaker, Co-director of Penned Up https://pennedup.org.uk/ - a literary festival curated with people in prison for people in prison.- S Stephen Riley @steriley.bsky.social Freelance researcher in Social and Criminal Justice
Dr Emily Cooper @criminographer.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at the University of Lancashire. Geographer. Mum of four (two live in my heart). Tweets child loss, SUDC, PPA2 deficiency, sex work, sextortion/FMSE, fraud, policing, VAWG. #WIASN
David Pitts @davidpitts.bsky.social VP Justice & Safety, Urban Institute. Research on prisons, jails, and systems change. Alum of Georgia, Indiana, and UC Irvine. Adjunct Faculty, CUNY. Alabama native. 🏳️🌈
#criminaljustice #criminology #corrections #prisonreform #crimsky
Vicki Cardwell @vickihcardwell.bsky.social CEO at Spark Inside.
Focused on unlocking potential and talent in prisons.
Formerly Criminal Justice Alliance, Revolving Doors Agency & T2A Alliance.
Stephen Farrall @stephenfarrall.bsky.social Criminologist (offending careers; politics & crime; homicide; fear of crime) & cyclist (MTBs + Brompton). S11 & NG7.
Sociology qualifications: BSc/MSc (Surrey)
Law qualifications: DPhil (Oxford); GCSE (graded at U 🤣).
Alex Stevens @profalexstevens.bsky.social Professor of Criminology, University of Sheffield. Trustee at Criminal Justice Alliance. Volunteer for Sheffield Jazz. Peak District walker. Drug policy geek.
Jenni Ward @jenniward.bsky.social Associate Professor in Criminology Middlesex University researching courts, sentencing, comparative approaches to 18-25 year olds in the criminal justice system.
Scottish Institute for Policing Research @the-sipr.bsky.social SIPR is a strategic collaboration between Scotland's universities, Police Scotland and the Scottish Police Authority. Our mission is to support internationally excellent, multi-disciplinary policing research to enable evidence-informed policy & practice.
@jessicahenryjustice.com @jessicahenryjustice.com Public defender for 10 years. Prof. for 20. The system was broken then. It's broken now. Wrongful convictions | Death penalty | Second chances. Smoke but No Fire (UC Press 2020)| Book on second chances (UC Press, forthcoming). Host: Just Justice podcast.
Molly Zogłówek @molzog.bsky.social Gonna shitpost about justice, books and stuff x
📍 Cardiff / Gloucestershire
Deborah Coles @debcoles13.bsky.social Director @INQUEST_org expertise on contentious deaths & their investigation. Social justice research & policy. Feminist. Abolitionist. Advisor @cleanbrk
Jim Watson @jimwatsonmba.bsky.social Aspiring academic - PhD student Dundee, assoc. Lecturer UWS. Husband, father, grandfather just wanting to make the world a better place...
Fiona McDerment @fionamcderment.com Reader, writer, parent, partner, friend, maker, dreamer, ⚽️ fan, ally, Scot. Not in that order.
She / her. Glasgow ish.
https://fionamcderment.substack.com/
Laura Janes @laurajanes.bsky.social Lawyer, writer, lecturer etc: laurakjanes.co.uk
Tom Currie @tomcurrie.bsky.social Work: improving prison outcomes Play: collective vocal improv and inflicting tunage on consenting shapeshifters Rest: swim, padel and Referdle.com
@reubenjmiller.bsky.social @reubenjmiller.bsky.social 
Alison Urie @alisonurie.bsky.social Interested in justice, communities & the arts / Lecturer in community development at the University of Dundee / Director in Vox Liminis
Lover of ideas, learning, dot joining and baked potatoes.
Marguerite Schinkel @margueritesch.bsky.social 
Breandán Dé Rossa @timeservedapp.bsky.social 
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