Almost 1,000 released prisoners who should have been recalled to jail, including 18 murderers, are at large after the authorities failed to track them down.
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Telegraph on 30th Jul 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)
Criminals sentenced to four years or more will be excluded from voting.
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Telegraph on 6th Jan 2011 (via telegraph.co.uk)
The Home Office continue to show themselves as 'not fit for purpose' by losing yet more highly confidential information: personal details and intelligence on 33,000 serious offenders, dossiers on 10,000 “priority criminals” and the names and dates of birth of all 84,000 prisoners in England and Wales. There is also information on an unspecified number of people enlisted on dr...
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Blairwatch on 22nd Aug 2008 (via blairwatch.co.uk)
Almost 4,000 foreign criminals who should have been deported, including dozens of murderers, rapists and other serious offenders, are free on the streets, a watchdog has warned.
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Telegraph on 27th Oct 2011 (via telegraph.feedsportal.com)
2008 - "Ministers have confirmed plans for more targeting of 110,000 "problematic" families in a bid to cut youth crime."2001 - "... the estimated 100,000 persistent criminals, said to be responsible for half of all crime, would face serving all their sentences instead of being released early."Like this guy.The Government has improved its checks for prisoners who are given early release after a vi...
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UKCommentators on 17th Jul 2008 (via ukcommentators.blogspot.com)
Almost 1,000 released prisoners who should be back behind bars, including 19 murderers, are at large, figures show.
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Telegraph on 28th Oct 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)
The BBC are reporting that Home Office contractor PA Consulting have lost a computer memory stick containing personal details about tens of thousands of criminals. The lost data apparently includes details about 10,000 prolific offenders as well as information on all 84,000 prisoners in England and Wales. This loss is the latest in a whole string of incidents involving misplaced data, including: 1...
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PeterBlack on 21st Aug 2008 (via peterblack.blogspot.com)
The Government's controversial early release scheme for prisoners resulted in 80 criminals a day being let out early, hundreds going straight back into crime.
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Telegraph on 30th Apr 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)
Amber from Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarit on Vimeo. Numbers released by the federal receiver’s office show that on September 28th, nearly 12,000 prisoners were on hunger strike, including California prisoners who are housed in out of state prisons in Arizona, Mississippi and Oklahoma. This historic and unprecedented number shows the strength and resolve of the prisoners
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SocialistUnity on 5th Oct 2011 (via socialistunity.com)
At least 4,000 foreign prisoners have already taken "bribes" to leave the UK, costing the taxpayers millions of pounds.
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Telegraph on 11th Nov 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)
Because if Cubans vote today to empty the island's jails of prisoners of conscience and other political prisoners, tomorrow they may vote to fill them with the criminals who have oppressed and repressed them for more than 50 years. The Castro dictatorship, which is now feeling the fear it has instilled during its evil reign, will never take that chance.Marc R. Masferrer
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TheCynicalDragon on 11th Apr 2010 (via cynicaldragon.com)