Today, the Howard League is Britain's biggest penal reform organisation.

It will be tempting, as the Howard League points out, to try to score cheaper points on crime.

Over its 140-year history, the Howard League has had a significant impact on the development of criminal justice policy.

The prime minister has said today that the prison system is failing and needs reform; this is something which the Howard League wholeheartedly agrees with.

It is based on the British Howard League for Penal Reform.

The Howard League for Penal Reform is also concerned about the high incidence of prison suicide - last year 42 people took their lives.

He was chairman of the Howard League for Penal Reform from 1983 to 1991.

Kilroy-Silk is still on the council of the Howard League for Penal Reform.

He became President of the Howard League for Penal Reform in 2006.

Today Howard's name lives on in the Howard League for Penal Reform.