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Cameron wants to end 'cushy' treatment of prisoners. My Somalian kidnappers...

David Cameron is planning to stop prisoners having Sky TV in their cells, in a bid to end "cushy conditions" in British jails. The PM is concerned that some prisoners see doing time as like being in a...

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Chris Brown did a terrible thing, but he has served his time. He's not a...

For how much longer will R&B singer Chris Brown be referred to as “woman-beating R&B singer Chris Brown”? Forever? What about that old humane ideal of rehabilitation, of refusing to judge men...

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The story of Jennice Lynch is about far more than a mother's worry

To the casual reader, the tale of Ruth Lynch and her daughter Jennice certainly seems an interesting story. The idea that a mother would ask a judge to send her own daughter to prison goes deeply...

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David Cameron invents laws to punish people he doesn't like. This is populism...

There is something very disturbing about the remarks made by the Prime Minister from the United States yesterday. Mr Cameron said that he is looking at "extending criminal offences" to cover market...

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Christmas Eve in the courtroom

“If the law supposes that,” said Mr Bumble, “the law is a ass”. And, let’s face it, there have been a lot of daft rulings handed down by our courts this year. Here is a selection of the latest...

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Woody Allen and William Roache: one tried by a Twitter mob, the other by a...

Last week verdicts were passed on two men accused of sexually abusing minors. The manner in which the verdicts were passed could not have been more different. Firstly, a "guilty verdict" was issued...

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'Justice must be seen to be done': televised courtrooms, Oscar Pistorius and...

As luck would have it, the email from the editor ("What do you think about the televisualisation of the Oscar Pistorius trial?") arrived just as I sat down for the post-work pint with two British...

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Brits are being carted off to face trial in foreign courts. Time to scrap the...

Essex police arrived out of the blue. They knocked on my constituent’s door, asked him to confirm his identify, before taking him down to the police station under arrest. After a brief court...

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Booze bracelets? Even Orwell did not foresee this dawn of the wearable policeman

Even with all their dystopian prescience, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell or Philip K Dick did not foresee a future state that would monitor its citizens' sweat for signs of deviant, boozy behaviour. I...

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The medievalism of the campaign to stop Ched Evans from getting his old job back

One of the key building blocks of a civilised society is the rehabilitation of criminals. In modern, democratic nations, we don’t demonise criminals forever. We don’t brand them, or make them bear some...

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