Category: Policy & Reform
Police taser man carrying toy gun
Metropolitan police officers fired a Taser nine times at a man sitting on a train in the belief he was carrying a weapon in his briefcase. The use of Tasers on a train comes as the commissioner of the Met
Perry in glare over US death penalty
Texas governor and Republican White House hopeful Rick Perry has overseen more executions than any other US governor and is proud of it. Convicted triple murderer Hank Skinner is scheduled to be put to death in Texas on November 9
Tougher sentencing will put pressure on prisons
The jail population in England and Wales could soar towards 95,000 within six years, Whitehall officials forecast yesterday as the Coalition signalled a toughening in its approach to criminal justice policy.
Alarm at private police operating beyond the law (IPCC reports)
Hundreds of privately contracted police officers are working for forces across the country despite being unaccountable to the watchdog responsible for investigating deaths in custody, public complaints and allegations of wrongdoing, an investigation by The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC)
Campaigners demand better scrutiny of restraint cases
Children's rights campaigners have called on the government to improve scrutiny of the use of restraint against children in immigration cases after major discrepancies were found in accounts of how often restraint is used when children are deported.
Arizona prison sentences among toughest for many crimes
Whether it’s putting a shoplifter behind bars for three years or a child-porn user away for 200 years, Arizona imposes among the longest, harshest sentences of any state in the country for a wide variety of crimes. Politically, that has
Prison bullying linked to suicides in custody
More effective reporting and recording of bullying among prisoners must be implemented to reduce the number of suicides within custody, according to a report today from the prisons and probation ombudsman (PPO) for England and Wales.
Rethinking the police
When the last full-scale review of policing took place, officers did not have radios and there were more than 100 forces in England alone. The 1962 Royal Commission on the Police was established to conduct “some fundamental rethinking about the
Police to explain broken CCTV after station death of Sean Rigg
Serious concerns have emerged about faulty CCTV at one of Britain's most notorious police stations which was at the centre of the summer riots and a death in custody scandal. Brixton police chiefs must explain another broken camera in the
Police forces cease recording race of people that they stop
Police forces with some of the worst records of targeting black people have decided to stop recording the ethnicity of the people their officers stop and ask to account for their movements, the Guardian has learned.
