28th February 2005
An in depth look at past research on Arizona private prison cost studies concludes that research used to justify the expansion of private prisons is methodologically flawed, outdated, and in one case, discredited by the researcher's financial ties to the private prison industry. Published by the Private Corrections Institute.
20th February 2005
At 10:00 on 20 February 2005, activists of the Russian FrontAIDS movement blocked the entrance to the Ministry of Justice to draw attention to the problems of people living with HIV in prisons.
31st January 2005
New report from The Sentencing Project in Washington DC.
31st January 2005
Historic five year decline in the death penalty in the United States continues in 2004, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
19th January 2005
More than 1,000 prisoners are lining up to take the Scottish Executive to court following last year's ruling that found that the practice of slopping out in Scottish prisons was "degrading", it emerged last night.
14th January 2005
Prisoners are to be given free needles by police after it emerged that two-thirds of drug addicts taken into custody in the city are infected with hepatitis C or HIV.
14th January 2005
Lothian and Borders Police in Scotland are piloting a needle exchange scheme for prisoners in a bid to reduce health risks to police staff and reduce harm to drug users.
30th December 2004
More than half of Scotland's prisoners have taken drugs while they were in jail, a survey said yesterday. Three-quarters also claimed mandatory drug testing had made no difference to their use.
29th December 2004
Despite mandatory testing being introduced in 1994 across Scottish jails some 76% claimed it had not affected their drug intake.
27th December 2004
The mandatory sentencing fad that swept the United States beginning in the 1970's has had dramatic consequences - most of them bad.
Respect for rights in the penal system with prison as a last resort.