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PRISON POPULATION HITS NEW ALL-TIME HIGH: 82,501
"Our politicians stand to gain so much from making prisons work better to prevent serious and violent crime. But time and again the government shoots itself in the foot when it comes to prisons in a futile effort to seem tougher than its political opponents."
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The Anne Frank prison project
Steve Gadd talks about a project that stimulates the minds of prisoners and prison staff about the consequences of extreme politics and the persecution of minorities; addressing issues of racism and bullying, with a strong emphasis on the importance of individual social and moral responsibilities.
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The criminal justice and immigration bill
2008 will see the passage of the criminal justice and immigration bill. The government says once fully implemented the bill will reduce the prison population by up to up to 4,300 places. While any reduction in the prison population is welcome the Prison Reform Trust has serious concerns and misgivings with aspects of the bill.
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House of Commons Justice Committee
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Watch Juliet Lyon, Anne Owers CBE, HM Chief Inspector of Prisons, Andrew Bridges, HM Chief Inspector of Probation and Paul Tidball, Prison Governors Association giving evidence to the House of Commons Justice Committee after the publication of the Carter report.
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160,000 children of prisoners ignored by government
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Every year more children are separated from a parent by prison than by divorce and the government is failing in its duty of care for them a new alliance of prison charities will tell MP’s today.
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Indefinitely Maybe: how the indeterminate sentence for public protection is unjust and unsustainable
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Originally intended for a small number of dangerous offenders, the indeterminate sentence for public protection (IPP) is increasingly used by sentencers so that there are now almost 3,000 people serving these new life sentences; some for relatively minor offences. The briefing Indefinitely Maybe?, details the careless framing of the sentence, and the chaos it has brought to prison landings and to people's lives.
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