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Article: The Persistent Prison? Rethinking Decarceration and Penal ...
Corrections Today;  July 1, 1993 ;     700+ words ... ... Prison? Rethinking Decarceration and Penal Reform, focuses on her study of Ontario ... climate that attended discussions of penal reform" and wanted to challenge current thinking on penal reform on three levels: Theoretical. She ...

Article: Penal reform plea to cut reoffending rate
The Scotsman;  June 28, 2006 ;     639 words ... ... criticism of the country's growing reliance on jails, which penal reform campaigners say makes reoffending among a hard core of prisoners ... said is a priority. A spokesman for the Howard League for penal reform in Scotland said: "This figure shows that prison isn ...

Article: Release HIV woman, says penal reform group
The Press;  April 24, 1998 ;     444 words ... ... freed from jail immediately, says the Howard League for Penal Reform. In the High Court in Christchurch, on Wednesday, Joanne ... to get their own way. The Christchurch Howard League for Penal Reform was relaunched in February after a 23-year lapse. The ...

Article: Opinions wanted on prison system ; The Howard League for ...
Express & Echo (Exeter UK);  September 30, 2008 ;     384 words ...The Howard League for Penal Reform has set up an independent commission to investigate the best ... Commission on English Prisons Today Director, The Howard League for Penal Reform, 1 Ardleigh Road, London N1 4HS www.howardleague.org ...

Article: Charity slams West prisons for not tackling drug culture ; A ...
Western Daily Press (Bristol UK);  February 10, 2009 ;     700+ words ...A leading penal reform charity has slammed officers for failing to get a grip on the problem ... amphetamines and LSD once over a year. But the Howard League for Penal Reform claims drug usage is rife in prisons and officers are not confiscating ...

Article: PENAL REFORM STUDY URGES NEW OPTIONS
The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  March 25, 1992 ;     700+ words ...Christopher Kilbourne, Record Staff Writer The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 03-25-1992 PENAL REFORM STUDY URGES NEW OPTIONS By Christopher Kilbourne, Record Staff Writer Date: 03-25-1992, Wednesday Section: NEWS Edition ...

Article: Archive: Captain who preferred the carrot to the stick; He was ...
The Birmingham Post (England);  June 19, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... Birmingham was aligning itself with the latest theories of penal reform. For Captain Maconochie it was to be a sad end to an extraordinary ... Scotsman had already begun to take a great interest in issues of penal reform and the transportation system. The latter had long been ...