14th November 2005
Prisoners should be supplied with free condoms and given access to a needle-exchange system in an effort to combat soaring rates of hepatitis C and HIV among inmates, a report says today.
2nd November 2005
A former Labour minister called for the contracts of two privately run child jails to be terminated yesterday after they refused access to a Home Office team investigating their use of physical restraint techniques on teenage inmates.
31st October 2005
Claudia Cahalane reports on the campaign group trying to secure equality - and safety - for gay male prisoners.
6th October 2005
Laws setting out who can and cannot take part in elections are to be rewritten after the European court of human rights today ruled in favour of giving British prisoners the right to vote.
6th October 2005
The ECHR has upheld a 2004 decision in favour of prisoner voting rights.
3rd October 2005
Thousands of offenders who fail to pay their fines will be spared jail under moves likely to be approved by ministers to tackle record prison numbers.
21st September 2005
Scottish Nationalists were today expected to back a call for prison to be used only for serious offenders while petty criminals are given sentences in the community.
1st September 2005
Prison cells will soon be designated as "smoking" or "non-smoking" and criminals will be given a choice of rooms when they are convicted.
30th August 2005
Provides current, objective and empirically-based information to inform the implementation of policies and programs for promoting the reduction of harms associated with substance abuse in Canada.
9th August 2005
Almost one third of Scotland's prisoners are using drugs at the time of their release. "These figures clearly show that prisons are not best equipped to treat the problem of drug addiction," says SNP.
Respect for rights in the penal system with prison as a last resort.