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.
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.
Respect for rights in the penal system with prison as a last resort.