News Archive 15
February 17, 2006:
Carlile Inquiry Reports
February 9, 2006: New 5 year Strategy To Stop Re-offending
January 31,
2006: New Prison Information Bulletin
January 26, 2006: Crime Statistics: Major Review
Ahead
January 25,
2006: New Report On Recalled Prisoners
January 20,
2006: Cannabis Remains A Class 'C' Drug
January 19, 2006: New Powers for Community Support Officers
January 18, 2006: England & Wales Top European Imprisonment Table
January 17,
2006: Culture Deteriorates in HMP Leeds
January
5, 2006: Prison Suicides Fall, Says Howard League
January 4, 2006: DNA and
Crime Detection
February 17, 2006:
Carlile Inquiry Reports
Lord Carlile’s
Inquiry into the treatment of children in penal custody recommends severely
restricting physical intervention, stopping the strip searching of children and
an end to prison segregation... more
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February 9, 2006: New 5 year Strategy To Stop Re-offending
The Government today announced their five-year strategy to reduce
re-offending. The strategy includes a significant increase in the total amount
of visible, unpaid work carried out by offenders in the community...
more
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January 31,
2006: New Prison Information Bulletin
The
Howard League
for Penal Reform today launched the first in a series of new prison
information bulletins. It analyses the prison population and explains why
it has reached record levels... more
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January
26, 2006: Crime Statistics: Major Review Ahead
A major cross-party review of how crime statistics are compiled
and published was announced today by
Home Secretary Charles Clarke... more
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January 25,
2006: New Report On Recalled Prisoners
The National
Offender Management Service (NOMS) urgently needs to improve the systems for
managing recalled prisoners, said Anne Owers, Chief Inspector of Prisons,
publishing... more
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January 20,
2006: Cannabis Remains A Class 'C' Drug
Home Secretary Charles Clarke has decided not to reverse the
decision taken two years ago to downgrade cannabis to a class C drug. ..
more
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January 19, 2006: New Powers for Community Support Officers
The Home Office has
announced a robust set of standard powers for Community Support Officers (CSOs).
At present the powers available to CSOs vary from police force to police
force... more
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January 18, 2006: England & Wales Top European Imprisonment Table
England and Wales have the highest rate of imprisonment amongst
all western European countries, according to figures published by the Howard League for
Penal Reform.... more
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January 17,
2006: Culture Deteriorates in HMP Leeds
Relationships between staff and prisoners at HMP Leeds, an
extremely overcrowded local prison, had deteriorated since the last inspection,
said Chief Inspector
of Prisons Anne Owers... more
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January 5, 2006: Prison Suicides Fall, Says Howard League
The Howard League for
Penal Reform have just published figures indicating that 78 people committed
suicide in prisons in England and
Wales during 2005. This is 17 fewer lives lost than in 2004...
more
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January 4, 2006: DNA
and Crime Detection
According to the Home
Office, detection of crime through DNA technology has quadrupled over the
last five years. A new report,
“DNA Expansion Programme 2000-2005: Reporting Achievement”, has just been
published. The report demonstrates that... more
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The following Crimlinks news archives are
available:
Crimlinks News Archive 15: January-February 2006
Crimlinks News Archive 14: December 2005
Crimlinks News Archive 13:
October-November 2005
Crimlinks News Archive 12:
August-September 2005
Crimlinks News Archive 11: June-July
2005
Crimlinks News Archive 10:
April-May 2005
Crimlinks News Archive 9: March
2005
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February 2005
Crimlinks News Archive 7:
January 2005
Crimlinks News Archive 6:
December 2004
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Crimlinks News Archive 4:
October 2004
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2: June-July 2004
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