Jackie Long is social affairs editor and presenter for Channel 4 News.
Jackie Long is Channel 4 News Social affairs editor and presenter. She joined the programme in 2011, following more than two decades at the BBC. Most recently she was Correspondent at Newsnight, and she previously worked on The World at One, PM and Five Live.
Rape is one of the most devastating, traumatic crimes imaginable. And one where the chance of victims getting justice is painfully slim. While no one doubts it is a complex crime to investigate, the collapse of charge and conviction rates prompted the government to launch the 2021 Rape Review.
HMP Wandsworth hit the headlines last year when an inmate escaped.
We spoke to Yvette Cooper, the Shadow Home Secretary.
By any measure it’s been a grim day for the Conservatives – they lost the by-election for an MP in Blackpool South thanks to a massive swing to Labour, they’re on track to lose around half of the local election council seats they contested and their projected national vote share is down to a dismal…
We spoke earlier to the former director general of England and Wales’ Prison Service, Phil Wheatley. We started by asking him who should be held accountable for Robert Fenlon’s death.
There are calls for the prison service to face a corporate manslaughter prosecution following the self-inflicted death of a man in a troubled jail with a history of failing vulnerable prisoners.
A proposed law change is set to end an anomaly that protects other people’s children from paedophiles, but not the offender’s own. The current rules allow people convicted of raping a child to retain the right to be involved in key decisions about their children’s lives, with devastating consequences for many families, as we’ve previously…
We spoke to Seyed Mohammad Marandi, a professor at the University of Tehran, who was previously an adviser to Iran’s nuclear negotiations team.
We’re joined from Tel Aviv by Lieutenant Colonel Peter Lerner, who’s a spokesman for the Israel Defence Forces.
Ali Ansari is a professor of Iranian History and founding director of the Institute for Iranian Studies at St Andrews University.
The state of Britain’s prisons is under renewed scrutiny as report after report describes more and more jails as overcrowded, filthy places, rife with vermin and violence.
Pressure is growing on the Government to tackle a growing crisis in Wandsworth Prison. Filthy, overcrowded and rife with violence – and this week we revealed a sophisticated criminal network of drugs gangs working inside the South London jail.
We spoke to Elisabeth Stern, from the Swiss Senior Women for Climate Protection – the group which pulled off the legal victory.
The Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves was left with a multi-billion pound black hole in her spending plans when the government adopted some of the revenue-raising policies she was planning to bring in – should Labour win the next election.
We spoke to Mark Fairhurst who chairs the Prison Officers Association and John Podmore, who’s served as a prison governor and as an inspector of prisons.