Why are black people with mental health problems still more likely than whites to be heavily medicated, restrained and detained against their will?
South Yorkshire police officers and council officers have been called before MPs on the Home Affairs Select Committee today to explain their failure to act to prevent shocking abuse and exploitation of thousands of children. Women Against Rape has supplied the MPs with some guidance and ammunition
A toxic mix of drastic cuts and fewer staff, rising prison numbers and harsher and less purposeful regimes are putting the clock back on prison reform.
A company called Mitie cleans Odeon cinemas and NHS hospitals . . . Now, all of a sudden, they're the UK government's favoured supplier for locking up immigration detainees. How did that happen?
A report by Prof Alexis Jay has exposed shocking abuse and exploitation of 1,400 children as young as 11, over 16 years, in Rotherham, describing 'blatant' collective failures of the care system, police and local politicians. A leading social worker holds the government to account.
The criminal justice system, not women's drinking, is to blame for low conviction rates.
Harsh UK immigration rules deprive couples of their right to family life unless they earn at least £18,600 per year — more if they have children. And that's all right, says the Court of Appeal.
Yesterday Chris Grayling, who is both Minister of State for Justice (dismantling the legal aid system) and Lord Chancellor (sworn to uphold the rule of law), gave evidence before the House of Commons Justice Committee.
One consequence of proposed cuts to legal aid is that children trying to prove they have been trafficked will be denied legal assistance.
Powers intended to tackle gang-related violence are ruining the lives of young people who happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time
• For almost an hour after Steve Ham was found unresponsive, G4S guards failed to call an ambulance• Panic, inexperience, understaffing and lack of transparency exposed at UK's flagship private prison• “An excellent model for the future of the Prison Service,” said justice minister Chris Grayling
Regardless of the regime's record of arbitrary arrest and torture, the UK Home Office is pursuing the deportation of a 19 year old democracy protestor back to the Kingdom of Bahrain.
