Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...HM Prison and Probation Service said it had invested significantly in video technology and that between January and November, 96,000 video calls were made between lawyers and prisoners, up 16 per cent since...
...Damian Hinds, minister of prisons and probation, blamed an unprecedented surge in the prison population over the past two months partly on a backlog of remand cases, or pre-trial detention, caused by the...
...Earlier, Nick Hardwick, the former head of the parole board, told the BBC that cuts and reorganisation in the system had affected the organisations’ ability to keep people safe....
...The Parole Board has said it had no involvement in Khan’s release and that he “appears to have been released automatically on licence”....
...Jeremy Corbyn, the opposition Labour leader, said he thought there was a question about what the Probation Service was doing and whether it was involved, as well as whether the Parole Board should have had...
...But a focus on parole risks obscuring the need to address a broader weakness in the criminal justice system: the dire state of the probation service....
...Harry Fletcher, former head of Napo, the probation union, said that reforms to probation five years ago had damaged the “performance and quality” of probation supervision....
...Michael Spurr, chief executive of the Prison and Probation Service, said on Friday that his organisation had had to deal with “significant pressures” over the eight years he had been in charge....
...Joseph Daniels Chair, Economics Dept, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, US...
...But the former parachutist remains on parole and would have to notify his parole officer before taking the position....
...Sugar Momma was in prison for 10 years between 1985 and 1994. She was released on parole for a while, got pregnant and ended up back in jail. She had her youngest child, Donut, inside....
...More than 8m people (one in 23 US adults) are under some form of state control at the moment (probation, parole, community sanctions, immigration detention and so on)....
...Just in time, it seems — today there are more than 2m people in American jails, with another 6m on probation or parole....
...To quote further: “Black men are disproportionately likely to be in prison: 9 per cent of all African Americans are behind bars or on probation or parole, compared with only 3.7 per cent of Hispanics and...
...Michael Corradini, Engineering Physics Dept, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, US...
...He made clear, however, that the 2009 figures would not be used as future performance measures for prisons or probation trusts....
...Spending on corrections has tripled in the past quarter-century and now one in every 31 US citizens is either on parole, on probation or in jail....
...David Hanson, shadow prisons minister, said he agreed with Mr Clarke’s aims but claimed they would be unaffordable as he slashes the £4bn prisons and probation bill....
...According to John Harding, former chief probation officer of the Inner London Probation Service (now the London Probation Area), a demonstration of remorse at trial can often depend on the defendant’s mental...
...Mr Straw said that “appropriate action” had been taken against staff responsible for managing the case and that London’s probation unit was committed to recruiting 100 new probation officers over the next...
...In recent months the state has also taken probation and drug-treatment measures aimed at curbing the growth in inmate numbers....
...Such laws would also mean that failure to register an e-mail would constitute a violation of parole or probation....
International Edition