4th September 2004
A record number of inmates killed themselves in English jails last month, triggering concerns about the ill effects of the prison population rising so rapidly.
2nd September 2004
The nation's largest private prison corporation joins forces with conservative faith-based ministries.
24th August 2004
A report by a panel reviewing Pentagon detention operations criticizes top officials, but fails to address government policy that may have led to the mistreatment and torture of detainees, Human Rights Watch said today.
20th August 2004
Some U.S. military doctors in Iraq and Afghanistan betrayed their duty to patients by participating in and covering up the abuse of prisoners, a report in the British journal Lancet argues.
15th August 2004
Press Release from the Committee for the Families of Political Prisoners and Detainees in the West Bank
11th August 2004
A ruling by Britain's second-highest court undermines the global ban on torture, Human Rights Watch said today.
24th July 2004
Rachael Davies reports on the rapid spread of HIV through communities of injecting drug users in prisons worldwide, and asks why cost-effective harm-reduction strategies, such as needle-exchange programmes, are ignored by most institutions.
11th July 2004
About 4.7 million Americans, more than 2 percent of the adult population, are barred from voting because of a felony conviction. Denying the vote to ex-offenders is antidemocratic, and undermines the nation's commitment to rehabilitating people who have paid their debt to society.
1st July 2004
An Ontario provincial-court judge has found the law governing the province's sex offender registry is too broad and, therefore, unconstitutional.
15th June 2004
by Thomas Kerr and Ralf Jürgens, Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network.
Respect for rights in the penal system with prison as a last resort.