Convicted murderer loses vote bid – BBC News
“A convicted murderer has lost a legal battle to be given the right to vote in elections while serving a prison term.”
BBC News, 28th October 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Category: prisons
Judge claims prisoners sentenced to six months serve ‘just a few days’ – Daily Telegraph
“A judge allowed a man convicted of assault to walk free from court as he questioned whether offenders sentenced to six months or less serve more than a few days in prison.”
Daily Telegraph, 24th October 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Prisoner’s High Court battle for the right to vote – The Independent
“A prisoner has launched a High Court battle for the right to vote in parliamentary and EU elections.”
The Independent, 23rd October 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Prisons accused of transferring most difficult inmates to pass inspections – The Guardian
“Wandsworth and Pentonville jails are accused of attempting to dupe inspectors.”
The Guardian, 18th October 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Calls to scrap short jail terms – BBC News
“Prison sentences of less than a year should be abolished because they do not work, prison governors will hear at their annual conference later.”
Full story
BBC News, 6th October 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Cash-strapped jails ‘ready to blow’, governor warns – The Guardian
“The prison population is now so large that there is the potential for a ‘catastrophe of widespread disorder’ by inmates as jails struggle to make savings demanded by ministers, the president of the Prison Governors’ Association warns tomorrow.”
The Guardian, 5th October 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Coroner condemns Rye Hill jail where prisoner on suicide watch bled to death – The Guardian
“A coroner today (23 September) condemned ‘appalling and unacceptable conditions’ at a privately-run prison where an inmate on suicide watch was allowed to bleed to death. Aleksey Baranovsky, 33, a Ukrainian national, died in a blood-covered cell at HMP Rye Hill, Warwickshire, in June 2006.”
Full story
The Guardian, 23rd September 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Cash crisis in prisoner rehabilitation scheme adds to overcrowding – The Independent
“Hundreds of convicts who could be released are being held in jails because the Government has failed to pay for enough drug treatment and rehabilitation courses, a leading prison governor warned yesterday.”
The Independent, 17th September 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Killer wins birthmark op battle – BBC News
“A man serving a life sentence for a double murder has won a High Court victory over his right to have cosmetic surgery on the NHS.”
BBC News, 2nd September 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Two-thirds of prisons overcrowded says report – The Independent
“Two-thirds of prisons in England and Wales are overcrowded, figures revealed today, with some jails holding hundreds more inmates than they were built for.”
The Independent, 25th August 2009
Source: www.independent
Vegan prisoners win right to “cruelty free” products in jail – Daily Telegraph
“Vegan prisoners have won the right to order ethically-sourced food, toiletries and cosmetics in jail.”
Daily Telegraph, 24th August 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Jailed drug dealer gets 18-year sentence for running cocaine ring from his cell – The Guardian
“Two prisoners ran an international cocaine ring from their jail cells in England and Panama, a court heard today.”
The Guardian, 18th August 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Desperate’ prisons jam more in cells – The Guardian
“The government has been accused of presiding over a ‘desperate’ attempt to manage the prisons crisis by placing thousands more offenders in some of the oldest jails which are already operating at close to capacity.”
The Guardian, 16th August 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Prison system is punishing me for biopic, says Bronson – The Independent
“He was feted by the film studio as a misunderstood prisoner locked up for 35 years because he dared to fight the system. But a year after the biopic of Charles Bronson won rave reviews at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival and helped frame calls for his release, prisoner BT1314 is back in trouble.”
The Independent, 15th August 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
One third of all children in jails are ‘wrongly imprisoned’ – The Independent
“More than a third of children sent to prison last year were wrongly jailed, a report into child custody rates says.”
The Independent, 13th August 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
R (Bary) v Secretary of State for the Home Department; R (Al Fawwaz) v Same – WLR Daily
“When considering the lawfulness of extradition by reference to the likely prison conditions which a person, if extradited, would face upon conviction in the requesting country, the question whether the high threshold under art 3 of the Convention on Human Rights for inhuman or degrading treatment would be crossed would depend on the facts of the particular case. There was no common standard for what did or did not amount to inhuman or degrading treatment throughout the many different countries in the world.”
WLR Daily, 10th August 2009
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
Prison population at record high despite early releases – Daily Telegraph
“The prison population has hit a record high despite more than 65,000 criminals being released early to ease overcrowding in the last two years.”
Daily Telegraph, 7th August 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Regina (P) v Secretary of State for Justice – Times Law Reports
Regina (P) v Secretary of State for Justice
Court of Appeal
“A real and immediate risk to life was required to justify a self-harming young man’s request that the State investigate treatment he received while detained in a young offenders institution.”
The Times, 23rd July 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Jack Straw cracks down on trivial prisoner legal claims – Ministry of Justice
“Jack Straw has announced proposals to crack down on nuisance legal claims and new powers to seize money from prisoners.”
Ministry of Justice, 16th July 2009
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
Don’t deny justice to prisoners – The Guardian
“Jack Straw plans to cut ‘nuisance’ legal claims by prisoners. But doing so risks a return to the bad old days of rooftop protest.”
The Guardian, 17th July 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
