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Government pledges emergency legislation to end automatic early release of terrorist prisoners
The Government has announced emergency legislation to stop the automatic early release of terrorists – after a convicted terrorist stabbed two people yesterday afternoon in a busy south London street.
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Increase in prisoners developing drug habits
“It’s easier to get drugs in prison than a clean pair of socks” according to one former inmate.
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Prison stabbings being treated as terror attack
Police have declared an assault on prison officers at a Cambridgeshire jail a terrorist attack.
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London Bridge attack: ‘People have warned about dangers in prison system for a long time’, says former head of Parole board for England and Wales
I spoke to the former head of the Parole board for England and Wales, Nick Hardwick – who resigned from the post last year – and I began by asking him about the wider backdrop of reforms to the criminal justice system – including prisons.
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Political row over Usman Khan prison release deepens
The political row over why Usman Khan was free to launch his deadly knife attack on Friday intensified today.
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Questions raised over Usman Khan’s prison release
A huge row has now broken out over the circumstances of Usman Khan’s release.
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Inside northern Syria: Five Islamic State militants break out of prison after shelling
Five militants from the extremist Islamic State group have broken out of a Kurdish prison in northern Syria – after Turkish shelling nearby.
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Police launch investigation into death of newborn baby in women’s prison
Police are investigating the death of a baby who was born at Britain’s largest women’s prison after an inmate reportedly gave birth alone at night.
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Carer could face prison term for failing to co-operate with inquest into teenager’s death
A staff member at a London care facility could face prison – after he refused to co-operate with an inquest into the death of a teenager with mental health issues. 19-year-old Sophie Bennett took her own life at the Lancaster Lodge psychiatric facility in 2016. Duncan Lawrence – who described himself as her ‘clinical lead’…
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Boris Johnson announces spending boost for prisons
The Prime Minister has announced another spending boost for the justice system, with a hundred million pounds promised to improve prison security.
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Boris Johnson pledges to increase prison sentences for violent and sexual crimes
The Prime Minister Boris Johnson has ordered a review of sentencing guidelines for violent and sexual crimes – declaring that dangerous offenders must be taken off the streets.
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Jeffrey Epstein investigation: US Attorney General criticises New York prison
The US Attorney General has strongly criticised the New York prison facility where the accused sex attacker Jeffrey Epstein was found dead this weekend, after apparently taking his own life.
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Student held in same Iranian prison as Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe says she was psychologically tortured
A London student, who once campaigned for Boris Johnson, was held in the same prison as Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, where she says she was psychologically tortured, sentenced to death and charged with being an MI6 spy. ● In 2016, Ana Diamond, an Iranian-EU dual national and 24-year-old student at King’s College London, says she was imprisoned…
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Student held in same Iranian prison as Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe says she was psychologically tortured
A London student, who once campaigned for Boris Johnson, was held in the same prison as Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, where she says she was psychologically tortured, sentenced to death and charged with being an MI6 spy.
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From prisoner of war in Iraq to a new life in Sweden
Last month, I received a letter from a Swedish woman. She had seen an old news film shot in 1980, in which I had reported from the frontline of the Iran/Iraq war. She said my team had filmed a man, who then had been a young Iranian soldier languishing in an Iraqi prisoner of war…
