Around The UK
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In this section you will find links to information on custody deaths and abuse from the UK. The information is drawn from several sources. Items are updated, replaced or deleted periodically.
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Police – deaths/abuses in custody:
Acting with Impunity: beat goes on
Source: TELEPOLIS (URL Link/pdf’s)
Angry families march for justice against police killings
Source: Demotix – see related item on Indymedia > NEW
Armed and dangerous: the police with their fingers on the trigger
Source: Guardian Archives
Can the police be reformed?
Source: Socialist Review
Closed Shop – Are the police unaccountable for their actions?
Source: Police Federation
Community Sentencing – Crime and justice
Source: Direct.gov
Court Sentences
Source: TheSite.org
CPS law scholarship in honour of Anthony Walker
Source: CPS press release
Corporate homicide law extended to prisons and police cells
Source: The Guardian NEW
‘Deaths in custody’ corporate manslaughter crime created
Source: BBC News NEW
Feeling passionately about custody deaths
Source: 4WardEver Members Voice
IAP publish statistical analysis of all recorded deaths: 2000-2010
Source: Independent Advisory Panel on Deaths in Custody NEW
Police killings and the law
Source: International Socialism
Victims of fatal police shootings
Source: TimesOnline
Why did their loved ones die in custody?
Source: Guardian – Race issues in the UK: special report
Why there will be more deaths in custody
Source: New Statesman
When ignorance is never bliss
Source: The Guardian
Detention – deaths and abuses in prison & psychiatric custody:
Hundreds die in ‘hidden world’ of mental hospitals
Source: The Guardian
Hundreds die yearly in care
Source: Morning Star
Mental health and police custody
Source: Independent Police Complaints Commission
General & Legal – issues of interest and law:
Black Deaths in Custody
Source: IRR News Network
Call for all casualties of conflict to be properly recorded
Source: Bureau of Investigative Journalism NEW
Justice on Trial
Source: The Guardian NEW
MPs defeat Blair over deaths in custody
Source: National Nine News
Outsourcing abuse: The use and misuse of state-sanctioned force during the detention and removal of asylum seekers
Source: Medical Justice
The Innocence Squad
Source: Times Online NEW
The Right to Know
Source: Liberty Guide to Human Rights
Until you fight, change never happens
Source: Institute of Race Relations
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