Press Release from the Committee for the Families of Political Prisoners and Detainees in the West Bank Read more
A ruling by Britain's second-highest court undermines the global ban on torture, Human Rights Watch said today. Read more
Rachael Davies reports on the rapid spread of HIV through communities of injecting drug users in prisons worldwide, and asks why cost-effective harm-reduction strategies, such as needle-exchange programmes, are ignored by most institutions. Read more
About 4.7 million Americans, more than 2 percent of the adult population, are barred from voting because of a felony conviction. Denying the vote to ex-offenders is antidemocratic, and undermines the nation's commitment to rehabilitating people who have paid their debt to society. Read more
An Ontario provincial-court judge has found the law governing the province's sex offender registry is too broad and, therefore, unconstitutional. Read more
by Thomas Kerr and Ralf Jürgens, Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network. Read more
by Thomas Kerr and Ralf Jürgens, Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network Read more
Lawyers for Iraqis tortured while in U.S. custody have sued two private security companies for allegedly abusing prisoners to extract information from them with the goal of winning more contracts from the U.S. government. Read more
Comprehensive data on prison populations, incarceration rates, etc. Prepared by Marcelo F. Aebi, University of Seville and University of Lausanne for the Council of Europe. Read more
In an in-depth analysis of the impact of Arizona's sentencing laws finds that the state's rigid mandatory sentencing laws fill prison cells and cost millions while doing little to enhance public safety. Read more
