SWEE ANG, the founder of Medical Aid for Palestinians, is a big believer in the power of small actions, and she is the living proof it works, writes Linda Pentz Gunter
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Labour in opposition promised reform on IPPs and joint enterprise sentencing – let’s get started!
Action for justice is needed as there are currently 3,000 prisoners behind bars under ‘Imprisonment for Public Protection,’ even though this type of sentence was abolished in 2012, argues KIM JOHNSON MP
EARLY RELEASES: Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood, with prison governor Sarah Bott at HMP Bedford in Harpur, Bedfordshire last Friday, ahead of announcing plans to address prison overcrowding including reducing the time before some prisoners are automatically released
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the difficulties surrounding freedom of expression
Kenny MacAskill remembers a ‘Sovietologist’ and voice for peace and reconciliation at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
In part II of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY explores how witch-hunting drives took hold in the Civil Service as the cold war emerged in the wake of WWII
The right to buy may have been scrapped in Scotland, but the damage it has done lives on even now, writes MATT KERR
Ahead of the CP’s Congress later this month, RICHARD HEBBERT looks at the pressing climate issues humanity faces and their interdependence with capitalism
BARELY two weeks since Labour swept to power, prison reform and the desperate need to tackle overcrowding has swept the headlines.
Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood has warned of the “total collapse” of the prison system and a “total breakdown of law and order” if urgent action is not taken. Thousands of prisoners are now due to be released early at the start of September.
All this shows there’s no time like the present to get started with some progressive reforms that will put an end to historic miscarriages of justice, improve the role and outcomes of the criminal justice system, and end the systemic overcrowding of prisons.
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