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Society daily 11.03.2010 (Guardian Unlimited)
Full coverage of Sheffield's 'Fritzl' case; the misery of hospital parking; plus, will prisons soon be at breaking point? Full coverage: the Sheffield 'Fritzl' case Authorities apologise for failings in 35-year saga of rape, incest and abuse Inquiry report: the lost opportunities to stop the torment Background: a lifetime of terror in the Q Family Patrick Butler: wavering, havering and failing ...
Judges fear prisons will burst under shake-up of sentencing guidelines (Daily Mail)
Keith Cutler, vice-president of the Council of Circuit Judges, said the Sentencing Council, which comes into effect next month, could increase judges' use of custody.
Judges fear prisons will burst under new rules (Times Online)
Britain’s leading criminal judges warn that a shake-up of sentencing guidelines could push prison overcrowding to crisis levels.
Lord Ramsbotham: Issue is no less than whether we are a civilised country (Independent)
In 1997, when I was HM Chief Inspector of Prisons, I was given the responsibility of inspecting what were then called Immigration Detention Centres, which contained asylum seekers whose applications were being investigated. These were almost invariably run by private security companies, on contract. The inspectorate then embarked on trying to improve the way in which they were run.
Peter Moore and his days in captivity (Times Online)
May 29, 2007 Five British contractors are seized by 40 armed men in police uniforms at the Finance Ministry. They are taken in the direction of Baghdad’s sprawling Shia district of Sadr City. One of the hostages is Peter Moore, an IT consultant from Lincoln, working for a US management consultancy.
Cuban hunger striker hospitalized and in critical condition (AFP )
Cuban dissident hunger striker Guillermo Farinas was in critical condition Thursday after losing consciousness in his third week of fasting, said a spokeswoman for the hospital where he was being treated.
Cuban hunger striker hospitalized (AFP )
Cuban dissident hunger striker Guillermo Farinas was hospitalized Thursday after losing consciousness as he began a third week of fasting, a spokesman said.
Lebanese man becomes first to sue former Syrian 'jailers' (AFP )
A Lebanese man has filed an unprecedented lawsuit against five Syrians, including four officers, that he said kidnapped, tortured and jailed him in Syria, his lawyer told AFP on Thursday.
Unknown Ghosts of London (London SE1)
Alan Murdie talks about some of London’s ghosts ranging from haunted old prisons, a stately mansion, a court house and a West End cinema. What do these studies reveal about the nature of ghost experiences and when they are most likely to happen?
McQueen’s final collection: a haunting, beautiful spectacle (Times Online)
It was probably the smallest show in Alexander McQueen’s history and not the one he had originally planned. That was to have taken place in the Conciergerie, a favourite venue of his and the gloomiest of Marie-Antoinette’s prisons.