International News
Driving the Point Home: A Strategy for Safer Tattooing in Canadian Prisons
12th September 2003
This policy document reviews international evidence of prison tattooing and disease transmission and makes recommendations to reduce the harm of unsafe tattooing in Canadian prisons.
Speech: "Prisoners as enemies or prisoners as citizens? - The responsibility of the State"
9th September 2003
By Vivien Stern, Senior Research Fellow\ International Centre for Prison Studies, Kings College London.
SPACE II: Council of Europe Annual Penal Statistics 2001
29th August 2003
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.
Breaking the Circle: A summary of the views of consultees and the government response to the report of the review of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974
25th April 2003
Published by the UK Home Office.
Mandatory minimum sentencing is unfair, ineffective, and expensive, says the Common Sense Foundation
21st April 2003
This inflexible, heavy-handed approach to dealing with crime has contributed to a boom in the number of low-level offenders sent to prison and increased the length of their sentences.
Speech: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Kennedy criticizes mandatory minimum sentences
9th April 2003
United States Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy address to the Annual Meeting of the American Bar Association in San Francisco criticises mandatory minimum sentences.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Kennedy criticizes mandatory minimum sentences
9th April 2003
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy struck the latest blow against mandatory minimum sentences, telling congressional lawmakers Wednesday that required jail terms are partly responsible for much of the prison overcrowding problem in the United States. From Brad Wright,\ CNN Washington Bureau.
Classifications of drug treatment and social reintegration and their availability in EU states plus Norway Final Report
5th April 2003
Detailed information on drug treatment programmes in EU member states and Norway. Contains some information on prisons. © European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, 2003 (www.emcdda.org)
ACLU Press Release: Money Can Be Saved on Prisons Without Diminishing Public Safety, ACLU of Texas Tells Lawmakers
25th February 2003
In testimony today before the Texas House Corrections Committee, the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas said that the state's prisons have become too expensive because the system incarcerates too many non-violent offenders who should be home supporting their families.
2002 Annual Report on the state of the drugs problem in the European Union and Norway
17th December 2002
Detailed information on drug use in EU members states and Norway, which includes information on prisons. © European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, 2002 (www.emcdda.org)
