Gary Gibbon
Chris Huhne: It got out of hand
Chris Huhne admits to repeatedly lying as he is interviewed exclusively for Channel 4 News shortly before sentencing today.
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Death row teenagers in Yemen
This article was first written for The Independent in relation to Unreported World on Channel 4 at 7.30pm Friday May 24th or on 4OD
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FactCheck: Why did Huhne and Pryce get out early?
It was widely reported today that Chris Huhne and Vicky Pryce had been given time off “for good behaviour”. But there is no such thing, as FactCheck finds out…
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Grayling’s probation plans: untried and unnecessary’?
Is the coalition right when it claims that, despite spending increases, reoffending rates have barely changed? And does it justify selling off much of the probation service to the private sector?
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New supervision for offenders leaving jail
Every offender leaving prison will be subject to 12 months under supervision, the government announces, in a move which will see a greater role for the private sector in prisoner rehabilitation.
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Prisoners must ‘work harder’ for TVs and gym
The justice secretary announces tough measures aimed at those that are “spending hours languishing in their cells and watching daytime television, while the rest of the country goes out to work”.
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‘Close Guantanamo Bay’ senior US figures tell Obama
Former senior members of the US military and political establishment accuse the country’s most senior officials of contributing to the spread of torture.
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Sex offenders policy at Moorland prison attacked
“Fundamental” work has to be done, says prisons boss Nick Hardwick, after a report criticises HMP Moorland for not running programmes to tackle the dangerous attitudes and behaviour of sex offenders.
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Samantha Cameron witnesses the plight of Syrian refugees
The prime minister’s wife, Samantha Cameron expressed her shock and dismay at the stories Syrian refugees told her while she visited them in Lebanon.
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Repairing the appalling injuries of warzone rape
Cathy Newman writes from the DR Congo after meeting the doctors who treat the “battered and bleeding” victims of warzone rape.
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Gary Gibbon
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Apocalypse when? Sweeping budget cuts start today
There is no big bang. As last night’s deadline for sweeping cuts to Americas federal spending passed – what will the sequester mean, and who will it hurt?
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Think-tank urges competition in prison sector
Private firms are better at running prisons than the public sector and all jails should be subject to open competition, says a new report by think-tank Reform.
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New evidence of UK complicity in Libya torture
Exclusive: what was the role of MI6 and Tony Blair’s government in the kidnap of Abdul-Hakim Belhaj from Malaysia in March 2004, which delivered him into the hands of Colonel Gaddafi’s torturers?
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Traces of horse meat found in another Irish plant
Another Irish meat processing plant has tested positive for traces of horse meat, Ireland’s Department of Agriculture confirms.
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Suppliers ordered to FSA meeting after latest meat scandal
The Food Standards Agency orders major food retailers and suppliers to an urgent meeting after the latest food foul-up – pork being found in halal prison food.
