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Category - prisons

1 Oct 2011

Imprisonment of women separates 17,000 children from mothers

The Howard League for Penal Reform has revealed that the imprisonment of women in the UK separates at least 17,000 children from their mothers every year.
30 Sep 2011

Prisoners' children to address UN body

Children whose parents are in prison will today address a meeting of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child in Geneva.
27 Jul 2011

Tackle gambling to reduce crime, say researchers

A research team from Lancaster University has insisted that crime could be reduced by five per cent if gambling problems were effectively addressed.
28 Dec 2010

Prison Reform Trust says limited voting rights for prisoners ' a step in the right direction'

The Prison Reform Trust has commented on the government's proposals for all offenders sentenced to four years or more to be automatically barred from registering to vote.
4 Aug 2010

Prison education is in jeopardy, say striking staff

Prison educators at more than seventy institutions are on strike today in response to an attempt by their employer to increase working hours and change pay scales.
10 Jun 2010

UK Government given three months to overturn unlawful voting ban

The Committee of Ministers at the Council of Europe has given the UK coalition government three months in which to overturn the blanket ban on sentenced prisoners voting.
3 Jun 2010

Widespread failure of prison service to investigate violent and sexual assault

The Howard League has revealed today that the prison service has failed to investigate 1,443 recorded incidents of violent and sexual assaults in prisons.
23 Apr 2010

War resister still in prison after court rejects appeal

The Court of Appeal has ruled against former UK soldier Joe Glenton, who was sentenced to nine months imprisonment after refusing to fight in Afghanistan.
5 Mar 2010

Campaign launched to cut UK prison population and tackle crime

The Howard League for Penal Reform has launched a campaign seeking to halt the relentless rise in the UK prison population and address the underlying causes of crime.
18 Feb 2010

Prison service found to have failed in treatment of foreign prisoners

The High Court of Justice in the UK has ruled that the National Offender Management Service had failed to comply with disability and race laws in its treatment of foreign national prisoners.

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