25th April 2005
Electronic tagging is failing to cut crime, ministers will be warned today in a report that also exposes dangerous breaches of what has become a central part of the Government's criminal justice programme.
25th April 2005
Napo calls for the scrapping of the electronically monitored curfew order, which it argues is extraordinarily expensive and ineffective.
22nd April 2005
Scottish prison chiefs are to scrap the compulsory drug testing of inmates after admitting it had failed to tackle rising heroin abuse behind bars.
14th April 2005
The growing number of women in Scottish prisons must be tackled by passing more non-custodial sentences, Cathy Jamieson, the justice minister, told MSPs yesterday.
13th April 2005
A prisoner who claims that the refusal of the prison service to introduce a needle exchange policy represents a real and immediate risk to his life has started legal proceedings against the home secretary.
7th April 2005
An analysis of the first six years of the use of Anti-Social Behaviour Orders in England.
2nd April 2005
The Government's flagship criminal justice measure, the anti-social behaviour order (Asbo), is being widely misused by police and local authorities, MPs have been warned.
17th March 2005
Groundbreaking report by the American Civil Liberties Union, Break the Chains: Communities of Color and the War on Drugs, and the Brennan Center for Justice focuses on the impact of the drug war on women and families in the United States
9th March 2005
This study investigated symptoms of distress and nicotine dependence as predictors of nicotine withdrawal symptoms among 188 incarcerated male smokers during a mandated smoking ban.
2nd March 2005
The U.S Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the Constitution forbids the execution of killers who were under 18 when they committed their crimes, ending a practice used in 19 states.
Respect for rights in the penal system with prison as a last resort.