Posts Tagged ‘prison reform’
originally published: 6th July 2009
Godfrey Moyo, an epileptic prisoner, suffocated after being held face down by guards at a high security prison, an inquest has found. Mr Moyo, 25, died at HMP Belmarsh in south east London in January 2005 after a series of seizures.
A jury at Southwark Coroner’s Court today delivered a narrative verdict [...]
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Tags: prison reform
originally published: 3rd July 2009
Labour’s flagship policies on criminal justice have brought about a crisis in the prison system, a group of leading penal reformers headed by Cherie Booth QC has concluded.
In a radical report, the Commission on English Prisons Today calls for the closure of many prisons and a new direction in sentencing. The [...]
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Tags: Government & State, prison reform
originally published: 24th April 2009
Jack Straw was accused last night of scrapping plans for a new generation of “Titan” super-jails because of a £300m “black hole” in the Government’s prisons budget.
As revealed by The Independent yesterday, the Secretary of State for Justice will confirm next week that he is abandoning moves to build three giant [...]
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