UK criminal justice

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• How to prevent prison suicides as jails struggle with staff cuts

  22 Oct 2014: Letters: It would be a good idea to utilise the services of the existing listeners to support the efforts of prison officers in keeping watch over potentially suicidal inmates

• UK government has ‘blood on its hands’ over failure to track foreign criminals

  22 Oct 2014: Criticism from father of girl killed by Iraqi man comes as NAO report exposes failings in handling of foreign national offenders

• Foreign prisoner data shows that tough talk is still just talk

  22 Oct 2014: Theresa May’s reputation seems unfounded as numbers show no improvement in deportations during her Home Office reign

• England and Wales prisons chief warns of ‘terrible toll’ of inmate suicides

  21 Oct 2014: Nick Hardwick says 69% rise in self inflicted deaths during 2013-14 provides evidence for rapidly deteriorating safety in jails

• Prisons inspector lays out factors behind high suicide rate

  21 Oct 2014: Nick Hardwick blames understaffing, overcrowding, poor mental health care and failure to identify risks for vulnerable inmates

• ‘I would know if another prisoner wanted to give me a kicking’

  21 Oct 2014: As report reveals poor safety in a third of UK adult male prisons, ex-inmates reveal impact of lack of support in bullying culture

• Terror suspect Haroon Rashid Aswat extradited from UK to America

  21 Oct 2014: Man accused of conspiring with Islamist extremist Abu Hamza to set up jihadist camp in US, leaves Britain

• Hardwick report looks at whole prison experience for clues to suicide spike

  21 Oct 2014: Report by chief inspector draws out details of life in adult male prisons that he said contributed to prisoners’ vulnerability
  

• Rise in prison suicides in England and Wales blamed on staff shortages

  21 Oct 2014: Chief inspector of prisons says ‘resource, population and policy pressures’ are to blame for ‘rapid deterioration in safety’

• Oscar Pistorius should not be going to jail

  21 Oct 2014: Simon Jenkins: First thoughts: Pistorius’s life is ruined. No one will be deterred by his sentence. Imprisonment is a brutal response that achieves nothing in such cases

• Lawyers urge peers to reject judicial review restrictions

  21 Oct 2014: Combined statement from legal professions says criminal justice and courts bill will have ‘chilling effect’ on people seeking justice

• Prison suicides: the disgrace that Chris Grayling doesn’t get

  21 Oct 2014: John Podmore: The justice secretary has presided over the worst deterioration in mood since Britain started building jails

• ‘Some paedophiles will never face justice’ – National Crime Agency chief

  20 Oct 2014: Law-enforcement agencies must focus on the greatest risk and tackle those people, says NCA director Keith Bristow

• The Guardian view on prison policy: punishingly expensive

  20 Oct 2014: Editorial: Locking people up is costly but not always cost-effective. Time to think again

• Prison whistleblowers in England and Wales being threatened with dismissal

  20 Oct 2014: Tory MP Gavin Williamson attacks ‘arrogant, high-handed’ attitude to those raising concerns about safety and violence

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