Sometimes campaigning works. How bereaved parents, lawyers, campaigners, one brave teenager (and 30,000 people who signed an online petition) achieved victory.
Justice minister Chris Grayling is imposing a ‘more Spartan’ prison regime, with deadly consequences.• 88 prisoner suicides in one year in England and Wales• Chief Inspector of Prisons to be replaced in 2015• Spending on food cut to £1.96 per prisoner per day (that’s £1.96 in total, breakfast, lun
Children and victims of domestic violence are among the losers as more and more people are denied legal representation.
There is more to the Tories’ proposals on human rights and free movement than mere electioneering, argues Frances Webber of the Institute of Race Relations.
The UK government must act swiftly to reverse a steep and dangerous decline.
Increasing numbers of people on low incomes is bad for health. Politicians and employers need to act immediately to improve living standards in the UK.
A new book exposes and challenges the criminal justice system’s reluctance to own up to its mistakes. (See also What does it take to overturn a miscarriage of justice in the UK?)
The old case of Tony Stock shows up much that continues to be wrong in the criminal justice system. For victims of wrongful conviction today, quality representation is increasingly hard to obtain. (See also Stubborn justice: the astonishing case of Tony Stock).
On Saturday 25 October families and friends gather with supporters in Trafalgar Square to remember people who have died in state custody, and to campaign for an end to such deaths. One activist sees beauty in the struggle to expose and challenge police and state violence.
The authorities failed thousands of children raped and beaten in South Yorkshire. One survivor appeals for help for children who are abused.
Ahead of a debate in Parliament the eminent paediatrician and former first Children’s Commissioner for England urges the UK Government to take action on the most important preventable cause of brain damage in children.
“When organisations like social services don’t treat you right, if you don’t have anybody, what you gonna do?” Savage cuts to legal aid leave many thousand of vulnerable children in England and Wales without legal representation.
