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Why spoil a good story with a bad headline?

Yazan: sarabedford | 17 March 2009 | No Comments
Categories: criminal justice, newspapers, police

Yesterday LibDem MP Paul Homes broke the story of the cost of keeping prisoners in police cells. Now there are several reasons why we should not be using police stations for this purpose, of which the cost is only one. There are many good reasons why we should not be locking so many people up. [...]

Now the drugs laws don't work (they just make it worse)*

Yazan: sarabedford | 30 July 2008 | 5 Comments
Categories: criminal justice

The news today that the police are fighting a losing battle against drug crime cannot have come as a surprise to anyone who ever ventures outside their front door.  Despite all the time and effort spent on drug crime, the report from the UK Drug Policy Commission says that seizures are having little impact on [...]

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