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.
17th December 2004
Lord Scott described the regime under which suspects can be detained indefinitely on the say-so of the home secretary with no right to know the grounds for detention as "the stuff of nightmares, associated with France before and during the revolution, with Soviet Russia in the Stalinist era, and now associated, as a result of section 23 of the 2001 Act, with the United Kingdom".
16th December 2004
Detaining foreigners without trial under emergency anti-terror powers breaks European human rights legislation, law lords ruled today.
15th December 2004
Available evidence indicates that most harm-reduction programmes can be implemented within prisons without compromising security or increasing illicit drug use.
9th December 2004
Last week, a training on methadone substitution - for both hospital and prison setting - began in Bali.
8th December 2004
Concluding his investigation into mentally disordered prisoners, Nick Davies looks at the number of children in prisons which cannot deal with their mental health problems.
8th December 2004
The international prisoners' rights movement lost one of our most dedicated and tireless activists on December 8th when Ahmed Othmani was killed in a car accident in Morocco.
7th December 2004
Up to 70% of inmates in Britain's jails have mental health disorders. Second of a series.
6th December 2004
Up to 70% of inmates in Britain's jails have mental health disorders. First of a series.
5th December 2004
Mary Riddell is the first journalist allowed to sit in on a jail experiment in restorative justice that could change the British penal system
Respect for rights in the penal system with prison as a last resort.