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Monday, June 28, 2004 |
Drug addicts commit crime as they believe a day in court is the only way to secure treatment, a report has said.
Users in areas with poor community services feel court-monitored programmes are their only hope, charity Turning Point said.
BBC
9:04:58 AM 
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Police are demanding a U-turn over the softening of the law on cannabis, claiming it has brought a 'sense of lawlessness' to the streets as smokers flaunt their habit.
Officers say more people are openly taking and selling cannabis in public, with calculated attempts to provoke retaliation, according to the chair of the Police Federation.
Observer
9:01:01 AM
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Britain's jails are plagued by a culture of racism among a hard core of officers and have been rocked by allegations that black prisoners have been made to fight white inmates for the amusement of warders, according to the union chief in charge of 33,500 officers.
As police launched an investigation into the allegations, Colin Moses, chairman of the Prison Officers' Association (POA), warned last night that the Prison Service was on the brink of a crisis similar to that faced by the police over the Stephen Lawrence inquiry.
Observer
9:00:31 AM
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Scotland's Lord Advocate Colin Boyd QC has praised the effectiveness of a centre designed to help victims of crime.
The Victim Information and Advice (Via) service has assisted 27,000 vulnerable people since it opened in 2002.
BBC
9:00:00 AM
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Magistrates' courts staff have been praised for their success in collecting £2.8m in fines.
Figures show between April 2003 and March 2004, Cumbria collected 93% of court-imposed fines, placing it among the best performers in the country.
BBC
8:58:57 AM
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Following the London stabbing of a 15-year-old boy - apparently by youths after his mobile phone - BBC News Online looks at youth-on-youth crime.
BBC
8:57:44 AM
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Prison officers turned a blind eye to drug dealing and abuse in an overcrowded jail plagued by addiction among inmates, a report shows. It calls for urgent action by ministers to tackle chronic problems at The Mount, where soaring numbers of inmates use illegal substances and staff are struggling to cope with disruptive, mentally ill prisoners.
Independent
8:57:14 AM
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The government intends to press ahead with legislation to abolish the ancient office of lord chancellor and create a supreme court, despite this week's failure by a committee of peers to break the impasse which stalled the bill last winter.
Ministers remain optimistic that with Liberal Democrat support they can push the bill through both houses before the coming election.
Guardian
8:56:42 AM
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The drug problems, crime and violence which infest some of Britain's inner cities are spreading "like a desert" into middle class neighbourhoods, and the first priority of the next Conservative government must be to tackle them, Iain Duncan Smith says today.
Guardian
8:56:03 AM
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A new £1.5m bakery at Lindholme Prison, near Doncaster, is offering inmates the chance to gain food preparation qualifications.
BBC
8:55:29 AM
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Britain's judiciary is still overwhelmingly white, male and middle class. Now the CPS has devised a novel way to change all that.
Independent
8:47:34 AM
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© Copyright 2004 Nick Page.
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Updated: 30/9/04; 2:11:33 pm.
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