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Published in: HomeThe Crime of Being Poor: Class and Criminal Justice in AmericaA U.S. prisoner named Paul Wright has penned an extraordinary essay on the role of class in the American criminal...
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Published in: oDRFighting for Magnitsky: an interview with Jamison Firestone (part 1)Six months on from the controversial prison death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, Oliver Carroll spoke to key witness...
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Published in: HomeA Virulent Outbreak of Rational Thought
Two UK based organizations are charting a course through the miasma of international drug policy by publishing...
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Published in: Shine A LightWhen they said ‘We will end child detention,’ they meant ‘Keep on arresting babies’Children are still being detained in the UK immigration system.
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Published in: Shine A LightSamaranch, Kissinger and the Coca Cola company: a relentless fascist’s curious date with democracyClare Sambrook recalls the day Juan Antonio Samaranch, the leader of the 'Olympic Movement' who died last month,...
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Published in: oDRPrison as a death sentenceThe death in custody of Sergei Magnitsky in November shocked the world and mobilised President Medvedev into a...
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Published in: HomeThe bizarre universe of drug prohibition: an introduction to the oD Drug Policy Forum
International drug policy is at a tipping point. Emerging from a forty year repressive dark age following the...
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Published in: Shine A LightLet’s make sure they really do end child detention now
If they mean the immediate closure of Yarl's Wood, that should be a cause for great rejoicing. This is why we must...
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Published in: Shine A LightGordon Brown on child detention
An exchange between the Prime Minister and campaigners on the question of child detention
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Published in: Shine A LightElection time: asylum seekers lose their last safety netWhen terrified men, women and children are being shunted off to countries where they face real and imminent risk of...
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Published in: Shine A LightSurveillance + detention = £Billions: How Labour’s friends are ‘securing your world’The rapid rise of the security industry with its close links to government has disturbing implications for our freedom.
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Published in: oDRThe rise and fall of Mikhail KhodorkovskyDoes a personal vendetta lie behind the imprisonment of Russia’s once-richest oligarch, Mikhail Khodorkovsky? Was...
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Published in: Shine A LightHas Meg Hillier gone mad?
The Home Office minister is in la la land over child detention.
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Published in: oDRIs Russia’s judicial system reformable?In this interview for oDRussia, Prof.Alena Ledeneva talks to Oliver Carroll about the prospects for judicial reform...
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Published in: oDRTackling Russia’s legal nihilismOlga Kudeshkina made headlines in 2004 as the first Russian judge to flag up political interference in the judicial...
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Published in: oDRGrozny: Rebuilt, Fearful and (Almost) Forgotten by the West
Downtown Grozny, Chechnya’s capital, is ablaze with lights and full of chic shops now. But the paralysing fear...
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Published in: Shine A LightTake one traumatised child, classify as 'adult', arrest, lock up, and bundle onto plane, bound for danger - Labour's Britain in 2010
A shameful case of the imprisonment and deportation of a minor by the UK Borders Agency.
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Published in: HomeA difficult week for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
The ICTY's struggle to prosecute war criminals causes a further decline in credibility in times when progress is...
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Published in: Shine A LightEd Balls and his iron hatThe Children, Schools and Families Bill is a stealth attack on liberty
