Why are vulnerable women still being jailed?
Melanie Beswick was 34 when she hanged herself in Surrey's Send prison in 2010. Her inquest was held last month. Married and working part-time as a financial assistant at Citizens Advice in Portsmouth, she had been left in debt over a slimming franchise. Over several months, she embezzled…
Minister calls for ‘world without death penalty’
[Swiss] Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter has highlighted Switzerland’s commitment to the abolition of capital punishment at the opening of the Fifth World Congress against the Death Penalty in Madrid. “Switzerland aims to ensure that those countries which have not as yet abolished the death penalty at least place…
National Conference on Policing & Mental Health
Health Minister Norman Lamb MP will be speaking at the first national conference on policing and mental health organised by leading agencies from the UK’s African Caribbean communities scheduled to take place at the Molineux Conference Centre in Wolverhampton, on Thursday 27th June 2013.…
