Archive for the ‘Prisons and crime’ Category
Sunday, August 1st, 2004
So the U.S.A. has 2.1 million people in prison. Add this to the fact that "crime rates have been declining since 1990, but the prison population has risen by 49% during this time." This is the biggest prison population in the world, and an unusually high proportion of the population. ...
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Thursday, October 23rd, 2003
Nathan Newman notes that up to 300,000 prisoners in the USA are seriously mentally ill - while there are only 80,000 people in mental hospitals - according to a new Human Rights Watch report. That's one in five prisoners.
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Monday, July 7th, 2003
Seems the first report of Ireland's new Inspector of Prisons is quite hard hitting - including calling for two of the main prisons to be demolished! It took a bit of digging (on the incredibly ugly, if functional, website of the Department of Justice) but I managed to find the ...
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Monday, April 14th, 2003
From the Guardian's wonderful 'Informer' email service:
"I came here thinking I wouldn't need any Arabic at all - just 'Put your hands up' and 'Put your weapons down.' They've been teaching me how to talk to the thieves. Things like, 'You are lying, I'm not stupid,' and 'If you steal, ...
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Sunday, March 16th, 2003
So it seems that the penalty for trespassing could be death in the US of A.
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Monday, March 10th, 2003
I wonder when the US will cease with cases like this and remove the death penalty?
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Sunday, March 2nd, 2003
Following on from this earlier story, the latest report on forced medication and the US justice system is just disquieting. Bodily integrity would seem to be a fairly basic principle that should only be overturned in extremis. Of course, there are voices raised in opposition.
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