March 24, 2005: Putting Punishment Before Justice: CSF Report
March 23, 2005:
Addressing Women’s Offending
March 22, 2005:
‘Contestability’ In Kent Prisons
March 22,
2005:Prison Officers' Trade Union Rights
March 21, 2005: New
Familial Homicide Offence
March 19, 2005:
Changing Cannabis Classification?
March 16, 2005:
New Guide to Restorative Justice
March 14, 2005: New
Prevention of Terrorism Act
March 12,
2005: Prisons Overcrowded, says Howard League
March 8, 2005: CRE Report on
Police
March 4, 2005:
Record Number of Men in Prison
March 24, 2005: Putting Punishment Before Justice: CSF Report
An important power in the government's drive against crime and
anti-social behaviour is putting punishment before justice, argues a new report
from independent think tank the
Crime and Society Foundation... more
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March 23, 2005:
Addressing Women’s Offending
Home
Secretary Charles Clarke has announced funding totalling £9.15 million on
new approaches to address women's offending... more
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March 22, 2005:
‘Contestability’ In Kent Prisons
Home Office Minister for Correctional Services and Reducing
Re-offending
Paul
Goggins today announced a competition to operate a cluster of three Kent
prisons. As part of its contestability agenda... more
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March 22,
2005:Prison Officers' Trade Union Rights
Full trade union rights have been restored to prison officers
in England, Scotland and Wales. In line with the commitment made by former Home
Secretary David Blunkett... more
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March 21, 2005:
New Familial Homicide Offence
A new offence of causing or allowing the death of a child or
vulnerable adult comes into force from today. The new offence of
familial
homicide, introduced in the
Domestic
Violence Crime and Victims Act 2004, closes a legal loophole that allows...
more
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March 19, 2005:
Changing Cannabis Classification?
Home Secretary
Charles
Clarke has written to the
Advisory Council for the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD), asking that the AMCD
reassess its position on the classification of cannabis and provide advice on
the claims of greater prevalence of increased strength cannabis...
more
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March 16, 2005:
New Guide to Restorative Justice
The government has published a new guide on restorative
justice for local police forces, prosecutors and offender managers... more
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March 14, 2005:
New Prevention of Terrorism Act
The
Prevention of
Terrorism Act 2005 received Royal Assent on 11 March 2005. The Act
introduces a system of control orders which are aimed at disrupting and
preventing terrorist activity.... more
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March
12, 2005: Prisons Overcrowded, says Howard League
Figures released
yesterday by the Howard League
for Penal Reform show that no less than 76 prisons in England and Wales are
overcrowded. Almost three-fifths of male prisons and over one fifth of female
prisons are overcrowed. This comes on the same day that new
National
Offender Management Service (NOMS) figures on prison population reached a
record high...
more
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March 8, 2005: CRE Report on
Police
The Commission for Racial
Equality (CRE) has just published the final findings and recommendations of
its formal investigation into the Police Service of England and Wales...
more
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March 4, 2005:
Record Number of Men in Prison
The
Prison Reform Trust have stated that there are more men in prison than ever
before, as the Prison Service is
forced to make financial savings and the
Home Office reduces the overall number of prison places. According to
official figures... more
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