prisons.co.ukPrisons News:
Inmates reveal drug use is 'endemic' in prisons (Edinburgh Evening News)
DRUG use in prisons is "endemic", according to a survey of prisoners released today.
Privatised prisons? (Politics.co.uk )
Offenders on short-term sentences should be put in special prisons contracted out to the private sector, a think tank has suggested.
What next for US-Israel relations? (BBC News)
Diplomats from the US, Russia, EU and UN have called on Israel to stop building settlements. What are the chances of Israeli Palestinian talks starting?
Can Catholic Church overcome child abuse scandals? (BBC News)
Pope Benedict has written a letter to the Catholics of Ireland. What is your reaction?
Waiting hits home on Guantánamo (Guardian Unlimited)
A remarkable documentary play by Victoria Brittain exposes the plight of the families of the British citizens and residents deprived of their liberty in Guantánamo Bay and in Britain on suspicion of involvement in terrorism.
Film review: I Love You Phillip Morris (The Scotsman)
I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS (15) *** DIRECTED BY: GLENN FICARRA, JOHN REQUA STARRING: JIM CARREY, EWAN MCGREGOR, LESLIE MANN, RODRIGO SANTORO
In pictures (BBC News)
Jerusalem's African-Palestinian community
Muslim gangs imposing sharia law in British prisons (Daily Telegraph)
Radical Muslim gangs are imposing a form of sharia law inside some of Britain's prisons, a BBC investigation has found.
Female prison officer facing jail for inmate phone sex (Daily Telegraph)
A female prison monitor, Alice Belton, is facing jail after having phone sex with three inmates.
Half of prisoners return to crime on release (Daily Telegraph)
Half of criminals return to crime within a year of leaving prison, official figures have shown.