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Prisons Minister: Our Criminal Justice System is “Much More Punitive than the Victorians Were”
How can the Government reduce the use of short prison sentences if judges lack confidence in community alternatives?
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THE GREAT INDIFFERENCE: Brexit Wrongdoing Swept Under the Carpet
As serious allegations about Leave EU Official and Arron Banks continue to come out – the media and political class are complicit in a conspiracy of silence, says Otto English
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Paul Manafort’s Sentencing Isn’t The End of His Troubles
Caroline Orr explains how Trump’s campaign manager’s apparently lenient prison sentence is only the first chapter of this saga
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The Justice Trap: How Medical Orthodoxy can be Judge, Jury and Executioner
Two parents took their sick child to hospital. Within hours they were being questioned by police. Two days later, they were in court. Why?
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The Justice Trap: It Could Be You
In the first of a new series examining the failings of our criminal justice system, Jon Robins explores why this should matter to us all.
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Minister Tells Bereaved Families She Stands By Decision Not to Give Those Whose Relatives Die in State Care Automatic Legal Aid
As a new campaign is launched calling for the Government to introduce non-means tested legal aid for families who lose relatives in a state-related death, a Government minister defends the status quo.
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‘Probation Workers Supervising Offenders who Commit Murder and Rape on their watch “Scapegoated” over Chris Grayling’s Failed Reforms’
With the number of serious further offences by those on probation rising by over a third since the service was reformed in 2014 by Chris Grayling, the probation workers’ union asks: where is the political accountability for the failings?
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Shamima Begum and the Case for Mercy
Otto English argues that ‘an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind’ and that an advanced democracy like Britain should not seek to punish a naïve girl for the sins of those who groomed her.
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Top Law Firm Gets Injunction as Lawyer Jailed for Sex Assault
Gagging order granted by High Court relates to alleged incidents involving women at the company in London, Munich and New York. The ‘magic circle’ law firm Linklaters has been granted a temporary injunction preventing a former executive from revealing details of alleged ‘struggles’ facing women at the company. The UK injunction, granted by a High…
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‘No One is Coming to Save Me’ – Can Prisoners Become their own Life Coaches and Escape our Failing Jails?
Hardeep Matharu meets the charity helping inmates to think about their lives and how to transform them and explores why we can’t wait for the Government to make prisons places of change.
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‘Victimised Twice Over’: Supreme Court Rules Against the Wrongly Convicted
The Supreme Court’s ruling that victims of miscarriages of justice can only claim compensation if they can prove their innocence ‘beyond reasonable doubt’ is a blow to the idea of justice, according to campaigners.
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New MENTAL HEALTH Review ‘has raised FALSE HOPES in Minds and Hearts of many Black People’
The Modernising Mental Health Act report fails to offer a solution to what is one of the most glaring problems in the mental health service – the vast number of Afro-Caribbeans who are sectioned compared to the majority white population.
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HYPER TRUE CRIME: Reformed ‘Crooks’ Create and Star in Drama to Tackle Offending
Society must understand the human story behind crime to deal with it, according to the creators of Crooks.
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Danger in the Gulf: Expats in Legal Jeopardy
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office report (2014) found a 30 per cent rise in the number of Britons arrested in the UAE since 2012
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Is it Time to Abolish Child Prisons?
Criminal justice charities, parliamentarians and bereaved families have united to launch a campaign to ‘End Child Imprisonment’.
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‘If Prisoners Don’t have Human Rights, None of Us Do’, Warns Ex-Chief Inspector of Prisons
Prisoners, who are particularly vulnerable to neglect and abuse, still have rights, says Nick Hardwick
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Making Spice a Class A Drug won’t stop its Devastating Effects
Making Spice a Class A drug is likely to make its already devastating effects on vulnerable communities worse not better, politicians have been warned.
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Music from the Power of POSITIVITY and PRISON
Since Joey Base left prison in August 2016 he has become one of the most exciting rising stars on the Urban Music scene.
