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Part 2 - "Scandal of society's misfits dumped in jail" by Nick Davies, The Guardian

7th December 2004

Up to 70% of inmates in Britain's jails have mental health disorders. Second of a series.

Part 1 - "Scandal of society's misfits dumped in jail" by Nick Davies, The Guardian

6th December 2004

Up to 70% of inmates in Britain's jails have mental health disorders. First of a series.

"Face to face, a victim seeks justice from her burglar" by Mary Riddell, The Observer

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

"U.S. Can Use Evidence Gained by Torture" by Michael J. Sniffen, Associated Press

3rd December 2004

Evidence gained by torture can be used by the U.S. military in deciding whether to imprison a foreigner indefinitely at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as an enemy combatant, the government concedes.

"For Blair there is no such thing as legal principle" by Helena Kennedy, The Guardian

27th November 2004

Sadly, Labour's law and order drive is more than an election strategy

"Federal prisons ombudsman calls for clean needle exchange for inmates" by John Ward, Canadian Press

18th November 2004

The federal prisons ombudsman says Public Safety Minister Anne McLellan should order the establishment of needle exchange programs in penitentiaries. Howard Sapers, officially known as the correctional investigator, said in his annual report Thursday that the Correctional Service of Canada has ignored such recommendations for years.

"Unjust Mandatory Minimums Strike Again: Weldon Angelos Sentenced to 55 Years and 1 Day in Prison" - Press Release from Families Against Mandatory Minimums

16th November 2004

Sentencing "Irrational," Advocates for Fair and Reasonable Sentencing Call for Repeal of Federal Mandatory Minimums

"A generation of troubled youngsters 'criminalised'" by Sophie Goodchild and Andrew Johnson, The Independent (UK)

31st October 2004

There are no exact figures, but as many as one in three children in English youth jails are there for breaching an Anti-Social Behaviour Order (ABSO).

Ontario Doctors Call for Needle Exchange Program in Prisons

27th October 2004

Ontario Medical Association says clean needles needed to keep public safe from rising HIV and hepatitis C infection rates.

"Improving Our Health: Why is Canada lagging behind in establishing needle exchange programs in prisons?"

27th October 2004

Position paper from the Ontario Medical Association calls for the implementation prison syringe exchange programs across Ontario.

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