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The Parole Board's New Chairman Professor Nick Hardwick
Nick Hardwick became Chair of the Parole Board in March 2016. He also has a part-time role a Professor in Criminal Justice at the School of Law, Royal Holloway University of London.
From 2010 to 2016 he was HM Chief Inspector of Prisons and from 2003 to 2010 was the first Chair of the Independent Police Complaints Commission. The first half of his career was in the voluntary sector working with young offenders for the National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders (NACRO), young homeless people for Centrepoint and refugees and asylum seekers for the Refugee Council.
He is the voluntary Chair of New Horizon Youth Centre and a trustee of Prisoners Abroad.
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Published 29 March 2016