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Hospital trusts will be asked to check case notes of about 100 patients who died while undergoing treatment to calculate 'needless' deaths to help work out how many NHS deaths are avoidable each year. This has been proposed by Prof Nick Black of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine...
Police stations 'should stop being used' as places to detain mentally ill people, according to one of Britain's most senior police officers, reports the BBC.
More than 14,700 police are now armed with tasers. Figures due out tomorrow will show that in 2009 there were 3,500 taser deployments, rising to more than 7,000 a year in 2010 and 2011. The police have now been instructed to refrain from using the weapons at point blank range after a surge in...
The Ministry of Justice has announced plans for a number of new 'super-prisons' housing up to 2000 people in each and a series of closures. Super prisons are planned for Feltham and another in...
HMP The Verne is set to be re-rolled into a immigration detention centre, reports Corporate Watch. The prison was under threat of closure due to poor conditions but is now set to be redeveloped, bringing the total number of...
The fall in referrals of domestic violence cases to the Crown Prosecution Service has coincided with reductions in police numbers, reports The Guardian.
Activists say that abuse of women on sites like Twitter should not be ignored, reports the Guardian today.
A new report from the Centre for Social Justice labels Britain as the 'addicted capital' of Europe. Read the story on the Guardian website along with comments from Professor David Nutt....
Payments in the region of £200 will be paid out to each customer who was 'ripped-off' and misold credit card and identity theft insurance. However...
Oxfam, the Royal British Legion, and the Salvation Army are among the charities seeking legal advice over new lobbying rules which they anticipate could impact on them speaking out during future election...
Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) should be able to hire and fire prison governors and probation chiefs, according to a new report from the right-wing Policy Exchange. The think tank also calls for PCCs to be given powers to increase...
A new report by Release and the LSE claims that black people are not just more likely to be searched by the police for drugs. They are also far more likely to be charged....
