This is a letter from one of the lost and forgotten prisoners. In 1999, I was sentenced to a
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On any street in any city, town, or village, you will find people who have – as part of
People with criminal records can ask internet search engines to hide their history, so they can start afresh. But
The charity Children Heard and Seen, which supports the families of children with parents in prison, has launched a
More than 800 men who were held at the former Kirklevington Detention Centre in North Yorkshire between the 1960s
Whilst political attention often centres on the NHS and the visible front line of our healthcare system, a disturbing
I have now served over 23 years of the last Labour government’s illegal two-strike life sentence. Now we have
Could anyone explain to me why the government has not looked into the illegal two-strike life sentence? This sentence
Remand prisoners seem to be the forgotten people of the prison population. An observation based on my current experience
Since I wrote my last article, I had an email from a reader whose husband had just lost a
I write once again in the hope that you may finally publish my letter on this subject. I shall
The term ‘right to be forgotten’ represents the desire of individuals to simply get on with their lives without
Following the decision in Osborn and the unprecedented increase in Parole Board reviews, a considerable amount of interest has
When Shakespeare wrote "what’s in a name?" computers were yet to be invented. But today put a name into
At the time of the last general election there was media interest in the UK’s blanket ban on prisoner
August 2011 saw the prison population in England and Wales hit a record high of 86, 821 prisoners (only
Foreign national prisoners are people not holding a UK passport. They currently make up 13% of the prison population
When Defence Secretary John Hutton admitted that two terror suspects captured by British troops in Iraq were handed over
When Defence Secretary John Hutton admitted that two terror suspects captured by British troops in Iraq were handed over