5 h. ago Iraq's justice minister says prisons are at double their capacity as amnesty law takes effect

As a general amnesty law takes effect in Iraq, the country’s prisons are facing a crisis of overcrowding, housing more than double their intended capacity, the country’s justice minister said in an interview

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1 week ago Pepper spray to be used in young offender institutions from this summer

Pava spray will be made available ‘in limited circumstances’ to a select number of staff at three centres holding under-18s.

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2 w. ago Revealed: The staggering cost of detaining prisoners on ‘inhumane’ jail terms – and you’re paying for it

Exclusive: Locking up IPP prisoners cost £145m in 2024, on top of an estimated £1.6bn spent since the cruel sentence was abolished, analysis shows

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2 w. ago Revealed: The staggering cost of detaining prisoners on ‘inhumane’ jail terms

Exclusive: Locking up IPP prisoners cost £145 million in 2024, on top of an estimated £1.6 billion spent since the cruel sentence was abolished, analysis shows

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2 w. ago Prison guards handed £10million in payouts in last 5 years over violent inmate attacks

Some 202 prison officers injured by inmates have been handed Ministry of Justice payouts since 2019/20 – totalling £10.3 million and averaging at £51,000 per person

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2 w. ago AEGIS London doubles Digital Terrorism product capacity to $500m amid rising demand

AEGIS London doubles Digital Terrorism product capacity to $500m amid rising demand  Reinsurance News

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3 w. ago Trump administration ordered to help return man wrongly deported to El Salvador – US politics live

Supreme court upholds earlier order that Kilmar Abrego Garcia should be released after being improperly sent to prisonChinese foreign minister Wang Yi said on Friday that “the US cannot act recklessly, and the wheel of history cannot go backwards,” referring to US tariffs on China.Reuters reports that Wang made the remarks in a meeting with the International Atomic Energy Agency’s director general Rafael Mariano Grossi in Beijing. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Essex Boys gangland killer Michael Steele will be released from prison despite last ditch bid by ministers to keep him behind bars

Alongside accomplice Jack Whomes, Steele (inset) shot and killed three men in Rettendon, near Chelmsford, in December 1995 in a brutal gangland execution.

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