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Tuesday, April 13, 2004 |
A decade of "get tough on crime" campaigns - especially demands that a life sentence should mean life - has created a record total of 127,000 lifers in the American prison system, almost double the figure in 1992 and four times the 1983 level.
Recent moves to toughen sentencing laws have led to an unprecedented explosion in life sentences, including imposing terms without any chance of parole, the liberal Washington think-tank, the Sentencing Project, said yesterday.
"Lifers" now account for one in 11 of all those in US prisons. A quarter are serving life without parole and can expect to die behind bars.
Telegraph
9:03:27 AM 
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From porridge to haute cuisine . . . A book of recipes cooked up by inmates from throughout France and hand-picked by one of the country's top chefs has just been published.
The book, Je Cuisine Pour Moi Tout Seul (I Cook For Me Alone), sets out a hundred simple recipes, such as the galette prisonniere, the salade solitaire or the "simplest sponge cake in the world", that make creative use of the ingredients available to France's 60,000 inmates, all at rock-bottom prices.
The cover depicts a prisoner eating through a ball and chain attached to his foot.
Telegraph
10:05:11 AM
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Friday, April 2, 2004 |
Cambodian police have found a novel way of making criminal suspects come clean - by feeding them bananas.
Two teenagers were subjected to the unorthodox interrogation after being arrested for allegedly stealing five bags of soap powder from a parked car in the capital, Phnom Penh.
BBC
9:30:19 AM
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Monday, March 22, 2004 |
Hundreds of death row prisoners in Trinidad, Barbados and Jamaica could win a reprieve if an unprecedented privy council hearing beginning in London today rules that the mandatory death penalty for murder is unconstitutional.
Most countries in the Caribbean have popular majorities which support the mandatory death penalty as a deterrent to violent crime. The possibility of its abolition by a panel composed overwhelmingly of white judges thousands of miles away is a highly sensitive issue.
Guardian
3:19:24 PM
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Monday, March 15, 2004 |
Not many chefs can claim to have cooked a person's last meal before they die, but Brian Price has cooked 300 of them. He was the 'last meal' chef for Texas death row for 11 years and has just released a book called Meals to Die For.
Observer
9:11:10 AM
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Monday, March 8, 2004 |
Brian A Smith didn't know the two women who were shoplifting. They were caught on security cameras stealing sheets at the Los Cerritos mall in Los Angeles and received a two-year sentence.
But Smith was seen standing near the shoplifters as they committed their crime. Despite having no stolen goods, he was convicted of aiding and abetting them. Under California's three strikes law, which marked its 10th anniversary on Sunday, the 30 year old received a 25-year-to-life sentence.
Guardian
11:17:49 AM
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Friday, July 4, 2003 |
Lessons from Danish prisons
Copenhagen's main prison is a sombre 19th Century building
Though they are both members of the European Union, the gloomy clang of a prison gate is a sound you are half as likely to hear in Denmark as in the UK.
While British judges lock up 139 people per 100,000 of population, in Denmark the figure is just over 60 - less than half. Are Danes naturally so much less criminal, or are British criminals so tough they need locking up twice as often as the bad guys in Denmark?
BBC
8:32:59 AM
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Irish jails 'in crisis'
Ireland's inspector of prisons has severely criticised the country's prison system and recommended that two of its biggest jails be knocked down.
In the country's first annual report on the state of prisons, Dermot Kinlen said the high-security Portlaoise and Mountjoy prisons should be demolished for what he called their "unacceptable" conditions.
BBC
8:32:31 AM
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Friday, June 6, 2003 |
The work of God
Muhammad Saad al-Beshi beheads up to seven people a day. "It doesn't matter to me: Two, four, 10 - as long as I'm doing God's will, it doesn't matter how many people I execute," says Saudi Arabia's leading executioner. Al-Beshi began his career at a prison in Taif, where his job was to handcuff and blindfold the prisoners before their execution. "Because of this background, I developed a desire to be an executioner," he says. When a position became vacant, he applied and was accepted immediately.
Guardian
9:54:22 AM
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© Copyright 2004 Nick Page.
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