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Show me the money
The Independent reports that the Chief Executive of GEO, the US group behind the Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre near Heathrow, was paid $6 million...
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Police crime figures can't be trusted
The UK Statistics Authority (UKSA) has announced that the National Statistics designation is to be removed from police recorded crime data.
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Immigration detainee 'died in handcuffs'
Suffering from dementia and judged unfit to be in detention, a man of 84 has died while held in handcuffs at Harmondsworth reports BBC News.
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Gives 'going dutch' a whole new meaning
The Ministry of Justice in Holland wants to introduce a payment of 16 euros for each day, up to a maximum of two years, for those serving a prison sentence. Pieter Vleeming, the head of The Offenders' Association, a...
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Thousands using payday loans to pay rent
Payday lending companies are being investigated as more people are using loans to pay their rent and mortgages. Shelter reported that there were 9,000 calls to their helpline last year, a 30 per cent increase from 2012.
Heavy penalties are issued by the lending companies to those unable...
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Probation risk assessment will be time-consuming and bureaucratic, Napo claims
The Guardian is carrying a story this morning on leaked Ministry of Justice guidance on how 220,000 convicted lawbreakers will be split between...
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Detention of children overnight is a 'chronic breach' of the law
Greater Manchester Assistant Chief Constable, Dawn Copley (who is also the Association of Chief Police Officers' lead spokesperson on custody issues) said that holding children in custody disregards their rights and has become of great concern to the police, reports...
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British Society of Criminology Conference in Liverpool
Looking for an intellectual work out this summer? The British Society of Criminology annual conference in Liverpool in July might be for you.
Taking as its title 'Crime, Justice, Welfare: Can the Metropole Listen?', the conference will be looking at the scope for the criminological...
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Scotland Yard's commitment to root out corruption is questioned
Operation Tiberius, a report leaked to The Independent, has exposed the fact that 'scores' of officers were bribed by...
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Hundred-year sentences ignore both logic and evidence
There is a shaky evidence base for incredibly long sentences (100 years plus), Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay, Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Birmingham argues in a recent post on The Conversation.
Following a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights that life...
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The malaise at the heart of the criminal justice system
In his latest comment piece our director Richard Garside unpacks claims by The Daily Telegraph that dangerous criminals are walking free from court.
A greater proportion of convicted lawbreakers are going to...
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Go-ahead given for £250m 'supersize prison' to be built
A new 2,000 place prison will be built at Wrexham, giving rise to concerns that it will lead the way to more low-cost supersize prisons being built in future. Chris Grayling, the Justice Minister, has cited Oakwood as example where the...