George McBride

Collaboration through honest, open discussion was the order of the day at Volteface’s latest event, High Stakes: Prison Drug Policy Symposium, held at London’s Barbican Centre on Friday May 5. …

Volteface is proud to announce our latest event: High Stakes: Prison Drug Policy Symposium at the Barbican. This is the first of a series of events in our collaboration with …

  On Tuesday Peter Clarke, HM Chief Inspector of Prisons for England and Wales, released his first annual report on the state of our prisons. He highlighted that: [Our prisons] have become …

Volteface is pleased to announce its collaboration with leading academics from the Substance Use and Addictive Behaviours Research Group at Manchester Metropolitan University Criminology Department. Rebecca Askew and Rob Ralphs …

    VICE correspondent Krishna Andavolu meets those whose lives hang in the balance of the new pot paradigm. Each episode of this mini-series, which has evolved from his regular …

Joe Fenton went undercover for the BBC working as a prison officer at HMP Northumberland for two months, secretly filming the inner workings of the prison. What he revealed was …

VolteFace released our report High Stakes which provides an examination of the nature of the current drug problem in prisons, its roots, and five recommendations to improve the situation. The …

Liz Truss, the Justice Secretary, today announced the launch of a new white paper to “call time on failing prisons” and address the “toxic cocktail of drugs, drones and mobile …

Channel 4 News accompanied Volteface’s Head of Advocacy George McBride and Nicola Garrick of the Rehabilitation for Addicted Prisoners Trust on their research trip to see the Norwegian approach to …

The article is published in conjunction with Leafly. On Monday cannabidiol (CBD) producers and distributors in the UK started to receive letters from the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) demanding …