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Law and principle are lost in the crazy politics of 42 days

Posted on June 06, 2008
Law and principle are lost in the crazy politics of 42 days"Detention without charge tramples rights won over centuries. Labour MPs must resist prolonging it just for party posturing".If 7 days is a long time in politics, how much longer do you think 42 days of undergoing the 3rd degree is? Perhaps, some of those supporting this measure should undergo it first just to get a taste of how inhumane it is?

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Posted on June 06, 2008
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All mod cons with designer built overcrowding

Posted on June 06, 2008
All mod cons with designer built overcrowding"Titan jails to have overcrowding built into design, admits ministry"Rather than end overcrowding, Labour spin claims it is a design feature.Prison building fiasco, more like!

Security van makes 120 mile trip to escort prisoner 200 yards in Northampton

Posted on June 06, 2008
Security van makes 120 mile trip to escort prisoner 200 yards in Northampton"A security van was sent on a 120-mile round trip to move a prisoner 200 yards to avoid breaching his human rights.Mark Bailey, 35, was taken to a Crown Court but after a brief hearing sent immediately to the magistrates' court across the road...

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It's just not cricket...

Posted on June 06, 2008
It's just not cricket...I recall being at Nottingham Prison and its football team was known amongst the inmates as Skaghead United because of its players who were supposed to be addicted to heroin.It appears as though Channings Wood has suffered withdrawal symptoms for a different reason...

42 days detention will breach human rights law

Posted on June 05, 2008
42 days detention will breach human rights lawThe government's concessions on 42-day pre-charge detention for terrorism suspects have left the legislation in breach of human rights law, the joint select committee on human rights will say today.Given that I have already reported on terrorism legislation being used upon civilians who have got no connection with terrorists, if the law was passed how long before it is used against those who don't pay TV licence fee or council tax?

Sleazy Tory Party scores an own goal

Posted on June 05, 2008
Sleazy Tory Party scores an own goalThe Conservative MEP charged by David Cameron with ensuring the probity of expenses claims admitted last night to breaking the rules by channelling thousands of pounds of allowances into a family company.Giles Chichester paid more than £400,000 for office services to a company of which he was a director...

Balls

Posted on June 05, 2008
BallsHere is the news. So what? Next week we have the lottery winner who sneezed, and the week after the lottery winner who farted!

Council snoopers access 900 phone bills

Posted on June 05, 2008
Council snoopers access 900 phone billsCouncils have used laws designed to combat terrorism to access more than 900 people's private phone and email records in the latest example of Britain's growing surveillance state.There is something quite disturbing about bringing in laws to protect the public from the threat of terrorism, and then the State using the very same laws against the public whom it is claiming to seek to protect.

Charles Bronson says jails have gone soft

Posted on June 05, 2008
Charles Bronson says jails have gone soft"Britain's most dangerous prisoner (sic) Charles Bronson has claimed that political correctness means prisons have gone soft".He would know that wouldn't he hiding away in segregation? If it's so soft up on normal location, Charlie boy, then why don't you get your arse up there? Do you know how to do chicken impressions?

First super-prison likely to be built in London

Posted on June 05, 2008
First super-prison likely to be built in LondonBritain's first US-style super-jail is likely to be built in London, ministers have suggested."Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary, wants the new Titan prisons to ease the chronic overcrowding in Britain's jails, which are already full to bursting...

Tory MEP Giles Chichester resigns after expenses scandal

Posted on June 05, 2008
Tory MEP Giles Chichester resigns after expenses scandal"Whoops-a-daisy I am shown up to have made a mistake".This must be the understatement of the year. Or, at least, it is up there with the McCanns "We've done nothing wrong".It wasn't a mistake. It was deliberate...

'Super-jail' site to be unveiled

Posted on June 04, 2008
'Super-jail' site to be unveiledThe preferred site for a "super-prison" in the north east of Scotland will be announced in Peterhead later.The new 700-capacity jail will replace the ageing Victorian-era prisons in Peterhead and Aberdeen.

Tory pantomime season starts

Posted on June 04, 2008
Tory pantomime season starts

42-day detention: liberty on hold

Posted on June 04, 2008
42-day detention: liberty on holdThe Government has failed to make its case for a six-week limitThe Government's plan to extend from 28 to 42 days the period for which terrorism suspects can be held before charging them has become more about the retention of the Prime Minister than the detention of terrorists...

People caught trying to break into prison on the increase

Posted on June 04, 2008
People caught trying to break into prison on the increaseBritain?s jails will be criticised today as no more than costly bed-and-break-fast lodgings as new figures show that thousands of prisoners a year reject the chance of early release.More than 37,000 inmates opted out of tagging and other release schemes between 1999 and 2006, Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary, admitted yesterday...

£500m ?wasted? on Chinooks that have never flown

Posted on June 04, 2008
£500m ?wasted? on Chinooks that have never flownThe Ministry of Defence has spent more than £500 million on eight Chinook helicopters that have never been flown as a result of ?one of the most incompetent procurements of all time?, an audit has concluded...

Woman arrested with knife 'saved by sausage'

Posted on June 04, 2008
Woman arrested with knife 'saved by sausage'A woman who was accused of having a knife in public walked free from court because she works with sausages, lawyers said on Tuesday.Another example of a waste of money before the authorities realise they have made another mistake!

McCanns it's one long holiday

Posted on June 04, 2008
McCanns it's one long holidayThe Daily Telegraph is reporting that the McCanns are to go on their first holiday in a year.What is unusual about that? I think most families only have one holiday in a year. So what's the big deal? As far as I am concerned, the McCanns have been on holiday for the whole of a year...

PARLIAMENT MOTION CONDEMNS LONG BAY PATIENT LOCK IN

Posted on June 04, 2008
PARLIAMENT MOTION CONDEMNS LONG BAY PATIENT LOCK INMedia release June 5, 2008?Today Greens spokesperson Sylvia Hale MLC will move forcondemnation of the government?s decision to lock Long Bay patients incells for 18 hours a day to reduce costs? said Justice Actionspokesperson Brett Collins...

Tsvangirai detained in Zimbabwe

Posted on June 04, 2008
Tsvangirai detained in ZimbabweZimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has been detained by police during campaigning for the country's presidential election, his party says.Hat-Tip to LaffinAssasin for alerting me to this news story.

Mugabe: Live as I say not as I do

Posted on June 03, 2008
Mugabe: Live as I say not as I do"He's turned up again like a bad penny. President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe is back in Rome, staying in five-star accommodation for the duration of a United Nations food summit while his people starve as a result of his disastrous farm policies"...

Mother who devoted her life to fighting knife and gun crime is murdered

Posted on June 03, 2008
Mother who devoted her life to fighting knife and gun crime is murdered"Police have arrested the grandson of a mother who led a high-profile campaign against knife and gun violence on suspicion of stabbing her to death".Tragic irony?

Former top cop backs 42 days detention

Posted on June 03, 2008
Former top cop backs 42 days detention"Police should be able to detain terror suspects for up to 42 days to combat the growing threat from extremists, the former chief of terror investigations has warned".No they shouldn't. What growing threat? We need extra security because I say so, is the message...

Handbags at Dawn?

Posted on June 03, 2008
Handbags at Dawn?Bitchy Tory blogger Iain Dale has fallen out with Doris Karloff over her support for the 42 days detention limit.Miaowwwwww!

Brown told detention is excessive and out of step

Posted on June 02, 2008
Brown told detention is excessive and out of stepEurope's human rights commissioner is to write to Gordon Brown this week warning him that the proposal to detain terror suspects for up to 42 days without charge is an "excessive" measure that will put Britain "way out of line" with the rest of Europe and will prove counter-productive...

Prisoners 'spend too long in cells'

Posted on June 02, 2008
Prisoners 'spend too long in cells'Official claims that prisoners spend 10 hours a day out of their cells on weekdays are inflated, according to research by the chief inspector of prisons.Anne Owers says that the figures are a "significant overestimate" of what overcrowded prisons can achieve...

US accused of holding terror suspects on prison ships

Posted on June 02, 2008
US accused of holding terror suspects on prison shipsThe United States is operating "floating prisons" to house those arrested in its war on terror, according to human rights lawyers, who claim there has been an attempt to conceal the numbers and whereabouts of detainees...

MEP in £500,000 allowances probe

Posted on June 02, 2008
MEP in £500,000 allowances probeThe leader of the Conservative MEPs, Giles Chichester, has channelled almost £500,000 in parliamentary allowances through a family firm founded by his father, the yachtsman Sir Francis Chichester.Company documents reveal that since 1996 Chichester has paid the company £445,000 for services ?in connection with secretarial and assistant services for the European parliament, constituency and committee work?...

Robert Mugabe arrests opposition leaders

Posted on June 02, 2008
Robert Mugabe arrests opposition leadersThe Mugabe regime tightened its grip on the forthcoming presidential election when police arrested prominent opposition politicians and banned Movement for Democratic Change rallies.Arthur Mutambara, 40, the leader of the smaller faction of the MDC, was arrested after armed riot police swarmed over his Harare home...

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