17th March 2000
The "Race to Incarcerate" has not been fueled by an increase in homicides. Nor does increasing crime of any kind explain the explosive growth in our prison population, especially over the\ last two decades. Rather, it has been caused by deliberate policy changes that have brought more and longer prison sentences.
22nd February 2000
By Gordon C. Barclay & Cynthia Tavares. This bulletin brings together statistical information on criminal justice collected by the Home Office and the Council of Europe.
15th July 1999
By Ann V Scott & Rick Lines in Canadian HIV/AIDS Policy & Law Review (Volume 4, Number 2/3, Spring 1999). Published by the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network (www.aidslaw.ca).
20th May 1999
Excellent Canadian policy document on HIV/AIDS in prisons. Published by Prisoners' HIV/AIDS Support Action Network (www.pasan.org).
17th April 1998
Since the beginning of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, some people within governments and some public health officials have demanded the segregation of HIV-positive people. While such demands have become rare with regard to HIV-positive people in the general community, they continue to occur with regard to HIV-positive people living in prisons.\ \ By Rick Lines in Canadian HIV/AIDS Policy & Law Review (Volume 3 Number 4 & Volume 4 Number 1 - Winter 1997/98). Published by the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network (www.aidslaw.ca).
18th March 1998
Presentation delivered at the Beyond Prisons International Symposium, sponsored by the Correctional Service of Canada. March 15-18, 1998, Kingston, Ontario.
1st December 1997
by Pat Mayhew & Jan .J.M.van Dijk. (1997).\ The Hague: Ministry of Justice, WODC
30th January 1997
Research report on Britain's mandatory drug testing programme concludes it to be "counterproductive". Published by the Centre for Research into Quality, University of Central England in Birmingham.
12th August 1996
For Nils Christie the way in which a society delivers pain to its wrongdoers is the measure of civilization. He is a long-time critic of the "lock-'em-up-and-throw-away-the-key" approach to law and order that is now filling up prisons on both sides of the Atlantic. Christie has been an important influence on both Scandinavian prison policy and on prison reformers around the world. He spoke to Richard Swift in the August 1996 issue of New Internationalist Magazine.
18th June 1996
Excellent Canadian policy document on HIV/AIDS in prisons. Published by Prisoners' HIV/AIDS Support Action Network (www.pasan.org).
Respect for rights in the penal system with prison as a last resort.