Frances proposes a complete reform to the current penal system in the UK

Frances Crook is the Chief Executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform since 1986. She has been responsible for research programmes and campaigns to raise public concern about suicides in prison, the over-use of custody and poor conditions in prison, young people in trouble, and mothers in prison. She was the campaigns co-coordinator at the British Section of Amnesty International from 1980 to 1985, and was twice elected as a Labour Councillor for East Finchley in the London Borough of Barnet. Between 2009 and 2012 she was an NHS non-executive director of Barnet Primary Care Trust responsible for a budget of £550 million delivering health services to 350,000 people. She was awarded an OBE for services to youth justice in the 2010 New Year Honours List and was appointed a Senior Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics in 2010.

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