Prison 'losing battle with drugs'
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Staff at one of Scotland's toughest jails admit they are losing the battle against drug smugglers.
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Lessons on drugs have not worked and more must be done about smoking and alcohol,  advisers say.
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TORONTO (CP) - The alarming increase of HIV and hepatitis C in Canadian prisons must be combatted through government-led needle exchange programs, medical and legal groups said Wednesday.
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Prisoners who endure poor or degrading treatment suffer much of the same long-term psychological distress as do captives who are tortured, suggests a study published Monday.
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Too many inmates are living in "dreadful conditions" at  Perth Prison, an inspector's report concludes.
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More than half of America's prison and jail inmates have symptoms of a mental health problem, the Justice Department estimated Wednesday. But fewer than one-third of those with problems are getting treatment behind bars.
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Tories and penal reformers accuse government of mismanagement of prison system
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People who sell drugs near schools or use children to help them could get tougher  sentences under a new law.
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By Bill Luster, The CJ. Meth is further straining Kentucky and Indiana&#39;s underfunded systems for treating drug addicts and alcoholics, according to state officials, treatment advocates and others.
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Lessons on drugs have not worked and more must be done about smoking and alcohol, advisers say.
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MOSCOW  - Forensic tests have shown that some of the militants who took more than 1,000 people hostage in a school in the southern Russian town of Beslan last month were drug addicts, a senior prosecutor was quoted as saying Sunday.
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Guatemala knows it is losing the battle against drug trafficking &#151; its police, military and justice system are beholden to traffickers who use the country as a way station for Colombian drug shipments to the U.S.
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Patients losing their sight say they are being denied access to a drug which could stop them from going blind.
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The British Army, fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, is losing the equivalent resources of more than one battalion (500-600 soldiers) a year as a result of illegal drug use, researchers said on Friday.
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A "radical" change in prison regimes is needed if inmates are to be ready for life after release, says a report.
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A report Friday found mixed successes in California&#39;s new program that sends drug offenders to treatment instead of jail. The UCLA study concluded that nearly one third of
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An open prison is in danger of becoming a human "warehouse", the chief inspector of prisons warns.