“I’m beginning to wonder if it might be possible that we’ll be allowed to help make the criminal justice system more humane, productive, and rehabilitation-based.”   Read Mark’s thoughts on the criminal justice system in a new article for the Guardian newspaper.

Read some of the responses to Mark’s article Punishment Won’t Get Rid of Knife Crime in the Guardian, including a response from David Hanson, minister of state, Ministry of Justice.

Read the original article here.

Mark has an article in the Guardian this week on the UK government’s response to knife crime:

“The government’s response to knife-crime hysteria, the youth crime action plan, is an expensive package of measures, almost exclusively punitive in nature. No surprises there. And let’s not be surprised when it all ends in failure.”

Read the full article.

Watch the television coverage of Mark receiving his Prince’s Trust Award at the Daily Mirror Pride of Britain Awards.

Carol Vorderman hosts the show, while the award is presented to Mark by Victoria Beckham.  There is also a tribute to Mark’s achievements by the Prince of Wales.

Watch the television coverage of Mark receiving his Prince’s Trust Award at the Daily Mirror Pride of Britain Awards.

Carol Vorderman hosts the show, while the award is presented to Mark by Victoria Beckham.  There is also a tribute to Mark’s achievements by the Prince of Wales.

Mark is currently in South Africa working with Khulisa, a crime intervention charity working in Prisons and in Townships with vulnerable people.

We’ll bring you some photographs from his trip as soon as we can.

Read Mark’s article in the Society section of today’s Guardian newspaper, titled “It’s time the great and good met some real scary kids”.

The Truth About Street Weapons, the series investigating why young people carry guns and knives and featuring Mark along with Cherie Booth, begins on Channel 4 on Monday, June 30th at 11.05 pm.

The Street Weapons Commission panellists visited Liverpool, London, Birmingham, Glasgow and Manchester during May 2008 taking evidence from interested parties in an attempt to find out why so many young people now routinely carry guns and knives.

Highlights of each hearing will be shown on Channel 4 every day until Thursday, July 3rd. A studio debate hosted by Jon Snow follows on Sunday, July 6th at 7pm.

Find out more about the programme and watch clips from the hearings on the Channel 4 website.

Mark has an opinion piece called ‘Does prison rehabilitate criminals or just make them worse?’ on the Friction TV website. Watch it here.

Mark has produced a new report called ‘The User Voice of the Criminal Justice System’.