International Law

Prison confused over deportation

Posted on June 10, 2008
Prison confused over deportation"A jail housing foreign nationals has wrongly released inmates without proper preparation after assuming in error that they would be deported.There was no proper resettlement strategy at HMP Bullwood Hall in Essex, according to Chief Inspector of Prisons, Anne Owers...

Prisoners 'need work experience'

Posted on June 10, 2008
Prisoners 'need work experience'"Criminals should be allowed out of jail to take part in work experience, a report has said.Offenders' charity Clinks recommended that even those serving a life sentence should be involved, so as to improve rehabilitation and reduce crime...

MEP 'used expenses to make donation to Tory party'

Posted on June 10, 2008
MEP 'used expenses to make donation to Tory party'A senior Tory MEP channelled more than £750,000 of parliamentary allowances into a family firm which then gave donations to the Conservative Party, The Independent has established.I couldn't believe how much sleaze was contained in the above story...

Ministers promise to rehabilitate young offenders as well as punish them

Posted on June 10, 2008
Ministers promise to rehabilitate young offenders as well as punish themA new approach to youth justice was promised by ministers yesterday in which equal weight would be given to prevention, enforcement and the rehabilitation of young offenders.In an attempt to stave off criticism from the UN this year, Ed Balls promised that the measures to be announced in the summer would improve education and pastoral care for 10 to 17-year-olds in custody...

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Criminal record for 90p bus fare 'error'

Posted on June 10, 2008
Criminal record for 90p bus fare 'error'A bus passenger is launching a legal challenge after being handed a criminal record amid a dispute over a 90 pence fare.Tom Usher believed he had paid the charge by swiping his Oyster travel card as he boarded the bus in December...

Thousands of Chinese criminals cannot be deported to China

Posted on June 10, 2008
Thousands of Chinese criminals cannot be deported to China"Tens of thousands of illegal Chinese migrants cannot be deported for crimes committed here because China is refusing to take them back, say prosecutors".I know we do have some criminals who are Chinese...

McCanns: Gospel according to John

Posted on June 10, 2008
McCanns: Gospel according to JohnLink.

Zimbabwe 'run by military junta'

Posted on June 10, 2008
Zimbabwe 'run by military junta'"Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai says Zimbabwe country "is effectively being run by a military junta".He said 66 opposition supporters had been killed in political violence since March's disputed presidential elections and 200 more were unaccounted for".

Is this the Last of the Mohicans?

Posted on June 10, 2008
Is this the Last of the Mohicans?Link.

In court today

Posted on June 09, 2008
In court todayI will be in Crown Court today over the charges involving Rocky.

Children's champion voices worry

Posted on June 09, 2008
Children's champion voices worry"Too many teenagers are jailed in Scotland, the country's children's commissioner has said.Kathleen Marshall has highlighted her concerns in a report to the United Nations on children's rights".

Porn charge ex-Pc's stabbng death

Posted on June 09, 2008
Porn charge ex-Pc's stabbng death"The man who was fatally stabbed in Carmarthenshire early on Saturday was a former police constable awaiting trial on child porn charges".

Surveillance state

Posted on June 09, 2008
Surveillance state"The continuous expansion of the state's capacity to monitor and detain people is a dangerous thing. Any new powers should be specific and justified, which is why, this Wednesday, MPs should vote against plans to extend pre-charge detention of some suspects to 42 days...

Law creates underclass of child criminals

Posted on June 09, 2008
Law creates underclass of child criminalsBritain breaching rights, watchdogs tell UN"Britain has been condemned as a bleak place for children, where thousands are needlessly criminalised for misdemeanours and where the gap between the education and health of the rich and poor is growing...

Judge Khan you owe me a public apology in open court

Posted on June 09, 2008
Judge Khan you owe me a public apology in open courtI left my house at 8.55am in time to walk into the city centre to arrive at the Crown Court for 9.30am. It was already a heatwave. I didn't need this. I thought of catching a bus. But, I didn't wait for one...

Fraudsters hack into Home Office website

Posted on June 08, 2008
Fraudsters hack into Home Office websiteCunning computer hackers have hijacked the Home Office crime reduction website and used it to carry out an elaborate online scam."The fraudsters set up a fake page on the website then sent millions of web users a "phishing" email purporting to be from an Italian bank, asking customers to visit the page and confirm their bank details"...

Security Services do not support 42 days

Posted on June 08, 2008
Security Services do not support 42 daysMI5 'has not asked for 42 days'"MI5 has not "directly" asked the government to extend the time limit for holding terror suspects without charge, the home secretary has said".

Swan Lake in Hull parts 1 and 2

Posted on June 08, 2008
Swan Lake in Hull parts 1 and 2

When the Tories cannot even pull the wool over the eyes of a Tory blogger

Posted on June 08, 2008
When the Tories cannot even pull the wool over the eyes of a Tory blogger"I have just read the statement issued by Tina Haynes, the former nanny to Conservative Party Chairman Caroline Spelman about her "work". The statement, presumably distributed to the relevant news agency by CCHQ appears to vindicate Caroline Spelman at first glance...

Oh yes you did - oh no I didn't

Posted on June 07, 2008
Oh yes you did - oh no I didn't'Panto' police in prison van tripA police force has been accused of "pantomime" by an MP after a security van travelled 57 miles to transport a prisoner just 200 yards.What a carry on...

Tory MP paid nanny from expenses

Posted on June 07, 2008
Tory MP paid nanny from expenses"Conservative Party chairman Caroline Spelman has admitted using her MP's parliamentary allowance for payments to her children's former nanny.Ms Spelman told BBC's Newsnight that the money, paid in 1997 and 1998, was for secretarial work the nanny did"...

Twice the punishment

Posted on June 07, 2008
Twice the punishment"Prisoners with mental illnesses suffer neglect and alienation, as well as the sentence handed down. The WI is campaigning for change"."Following three months of debate in every branch in England and Wales, delegates at the Women's Institute (WI) national conference in Liverpool yesterday voted overwhelmingly ? 6,205 in favour and 173 against - to call a halt to the inappropriate imprisonment of people who are mentally ill...

Protect the rain forest by deforestation...

Posted on June 07, 2008
Protect the rain forest by deforestation..."A company belonging to a Swedish businessman with close links to Gordon Brown has been fined £137 million for illegally cutting down Amazon rainforest, Brazilian officials said yesterday".What a liberty! It's a bit like protecting liberties by removing them...

Boy found hanged after losing mother and grandfather to cancer

Posted on June 07, 2008
Boy found hanged after losing mother and grandfather to cancer"An eight-year-old boy has been found hanged just months after losing both his mother and grandfather to cancer".What is tragic about this case is that he was being monitored and still the signs were not detected.

Judge attacked for 'disgusting' sentence

Posted on June 07, 2008
Judge attacked for 'disgusting' sentence"The mother of barrister's clerk Lee Cook, who was killed in a City bar because of a row over a spilt drink, berated a senior judge across a courtroom for the "disgusting" 14-month sentence he passed on the man responsible"...

Prisoner food costs

Posted on June 07, 2008
Prisoner food costsFrom: John Allen HMP GartreeI noticed the following item in a national newspaper: ?£12 a day spent on prison cell food: prisoners held in police cells have up to four times as much spent on their food as hospital patients, it has been revealed...

Try wearing my shoes

Posted on June 07, 2008
Try wearing my shoesFrom: Charles Bronson - HMP WakefieldI love Inside Time, especially the Mailbag pages where cons are snivelling over petty things; it just cracks me up ? a real tonic! If they had to live my existence they would really have something to moan about; let me educate you guys what real porridge is all about...

A lifetime of labelling

Posted on June 07, 2008
A lifetime of labelling"Enver Solomon, Deputy Director of the Centre for Crime & Justice Studies, maintains that prisoners should be far more involved in decisions that affect their lives and futures".

Law on the Landings

Posted on June 07, 2008
Law on the LandingsBy: Ben GunnFor some time I have been having odd thoughts about Mark Leech. Where does his heart lie - with the Director General? The bank manager? Or prisoners?Every time you write a letter to your solicitor and mark it ?Rule 39?, you should thank Mark Leech, editor of the Prisons Handbook...

At least four in ten offenders go back to crime

Posted on June 07, 2008
At least four in ten offenders go back to crime"These latest Ministry of Justice statistics have been produced under new measures for adults and juveniles to cover the period 2000 to 2005 but the media reported the statistics differently".

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