Lord Scott described the regime under which suspects can be detained indefinitely on the say-so of the home secretary with no right to know the grounds for detention as "the stuff of nightmares, associated with France before and during the revolution, with Soviet Russia in the Stalinist era, and now… Read more
Detaining foreigners without trial under emergency anti-terror powers breaks European human rights legislation, law lords ruled today. Read more
Available evidence indicates that most harm-reduction programmes can be implemented within prisons without compromising security or increasing illicit drug use. Read more
Last week, a training on methadone substitution - for both hospital and prison setting - began in Bali. Read more
Concluding his investigation into mentally disordered prisoners, Nick Davies looks at the number of children in prisons which cannot deal with their mental health problems. Read more
The international prisoners' rights movement lost one of our most dedicated and tireless activists on December 8th when Ahmed Othmani was killed in a car accident in Morocco. Read more
Up to 70% of inmates in Britain's jails have mental health disorders. Second of a series. Read more
Up to 70% of inmates in Britain's jails have mental health disorders. First of a series. Read more
Mary Riddell is the first journalist allowed to sit in on a jail experiment in restorative justice that could change the British penal system Read more
Evidence gained by torture can be used by the U.S. military in deciding whether to imprison a foreigner indefinitely at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as an enemy combatant, the government concedes. Read more
