Parents of Feltham children 'right to be terrified'
'If you were a parent of a child in Feltham you would be right to be terrified', the chief inspector of prisons Nick Hardwick told The Independent as he...
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'If you were a parent of a child in Feltham you would be right to be terrified', the chief inspector of prisons Nick Hardwick told The Independent as he...
British sugar giant Tate & Lyle imports sugar from a Cambodian-based supplier implicated in land theft, violence and child labour, according to The Guardian.
A report from the Inspectorate of Constabulary has found that 27 percent of police stop and searches it reviewed did not did not have a lawful justification. Meanwhile, policing minister Damien Green...
The Runnymede Trust has launched a new three year campaign to inspire individuals and organisations to take concerted action to tackle racial inequality, support...
The Guardian reports on a new study by Citizens Advice that found that 90 percent of benefit claimants felt unprepared for the new Universal Credit and are likely to lose out...
With the government's proposal to ban khat in the news this week, take a look at the speech Professor David Nutt gave to us in 2009 on how to measure the relative harms of different drugs. It was this speech that...
The Independent reports on new figures released in parliament indicating that over 300,000 people are employed on so-called 'zero hours'...
Asks life sentence prisoner Jamie Starbuck in a letter to prisoners' newspaper Inside Time.
'Aside from getting into a yearly fight at school with the same boy I’ve only done one violent act and that got me 30 years in prison. When I become eligible for parole I’ll be
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We enjoyed David Nutt's piece in The Guardian on qat, or was it cats?
The Ministry of Justice is reorganising 70 existing prisons into 21 'contract package areas' to make it easier to privatise them. Over at the Howard League Andrew Neilson...
Single people need to earn at least £16,850 a year before tax and couples with two children at least £19,400 each in 2013 for a minimum acceptable living standard, according to the latest minimum income standard report...
New on the Reclaim Justice Network website, Judah Schept critiques the recent Policy Exchange Future Prisons report.