September 27, 2005: Campaign to End Children Dying in Custody
September 20, 2005: Home Secretary on Future of Penal Policy
September 19,
2005: Home Secretary Responds to HMIC
September 16 2005: Fewer
Police Forces?
September
5, 2005: Forced Marriage - A Criminal Offence?
August 31, 2005: New
Probation Statistics
August 25: New Drug Seizure
Figures
August 24, 2005: Behaviours Leading to Exclusion and Deportation
August 13,
2005: Prisons Breach Safe Limits, Says PRT
August 5,
2005: Failure to Address Young Offenders' Needs
August 5, 2005:
Broader Powers to Tackle Extremism
September 27, 2005: Campaign to End Children Dying in Custody
A national campaign to end the deaths of children in
penal custody has been launched by the
Howard League for Penal Reform. It also aims to end the unnecessary use of
penal custody for... more
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September 20, 2005: Home Secretary on Future of Penal Policy
Home Secretary
Charles
Clarke gave the
Prison Reform Trust’s annual lecture in London last night. In his first
detailed speech on the future of penal policy, he focused on how best to prevent
re-offending... more
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September
19, 2005: Home Secretary Responds to HMIC
The police service was today invited by Home Secretary
Charles
Clarke to come forward with firm proposals for the creation of strategic
forces in each region. He made the announcement in response to...
more
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September 16 2005: Fewer
Police Forces?
The existing structure of 43 separate police forces is "no longer fit for
purpose", according to a new report from
HM Inspectorate of
Constabulary. The original version of this report...
more
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September 5, 2005: Forced Marriage - A Criminal Offence?
A public consultation on whether to create a specific criminal
offence relating to forced marriage was launched today by
Home Office Minister
Baroness Scotland and... more
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August 31, 2005: New
Probation Statistics
New quarterly probation statistics have just been published by
the Home Office. The statistics are
provisional, pending publication of ... more
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August 25: New Drug Seizure
Figures
The Home Office
have just published Research Findings 265 on Seizures of Drugs in in England and
Wales, 2003 by Mwenda, Ahmad and Kumari. This research provides figures for drug
seizures made by law enforcement agencies during 2003...
more
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August 24, 2005: Behaviours Leading to Exclusion and Deportation
Home Secretary
Charles
Clarke has published a list of behaviours that will form the basis for
excluding and deporting individuals from the UK. The Home Secretary will use his
powers to deport and exclude those who engage in these types of behaviour.
The list of unacceptable behaviours... more
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August 13,
2005: Prisons Breach Safe Limits, Says PRT
The Prison Reform Trust (PRT)
has stated that overcrowding is forcing the
Prison Service to risk good
order, security and proper running of prisons. This summer, over half of the
prisons in England and Wales are officially overcrowded...
more
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August 5,
2005: Broader Powers to Tackle Extremism
Behaviour that provokes terrorism will not be tolerated in the
UK, Home Secretary Charles Clarke said today as he opened an urgent consultation
on broadening exclusion and deportation powers... more
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August
5, 2005: Failure to Address Young Offenders' Needs
The vast majority of young men in prison will reoffend due to the Government’s
failure to deal the needs of young adult offenders, according to research just
published by the Howard League for Penal
Reform... more
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