'The Prison Sentence . . . Is Excessive'
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President Bush's statement on his commutation of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby's sentence, from the Associated Press:
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The way the public are protected from criminals released from prisons is strongly criticised in a report.
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Too many inmates are living in "dreadful conditions" at  Perth Prison, an inspector's report concludes.
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Few people understand the criminal justice system like Wendell Poole. He spent 21 years, four months, 16 days and three hours in prison for assault with the intent to kill two people during an argument. He arrived home middle-aged and paranoid, flinching at the sound of passing cars. He needed a...
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Viktor Parshutkin knows the occupational  hazards of being a Russian defense lawyer: long hours, stress,  and the risk of imprisonment in a jail so overcrowded the  inmates have to sleep in shifts.
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Jail never made anybody tougher. Youâre either tough before you go in or youâre not. If anything, jail makes you paranoid. Hopkins, 39, is probably boxingâs most paranoid representative.
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Stop executions for a while and perhaps they can be stopped forever. That calculation has been part of the strategy of capital punishment opponents for decades.
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Kenneth Foster, whose death sentence has raised international protest, won a rare commutation to life in prison.
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The number of prisoners in England and Wales has risen to a record high of almost 81,000, the Prison Service said today.
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Human rights experts call them "prisoners of conscience." Hundreds of them around the world are forced to live in deplorable conditions in jail cells and prison camps.
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A Brit who spent 18 years on Pakistan's death row has spoken of his &quot;bolt of shock and fear&quot; when he was sentenced, and then of his long prison life, punctuated by hearing other men hang.
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A decade after Texas tripled its prison  capacity, the state is once again facing a shortage of space in  its penal system as the number of inmates continues to grow.
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More than 900 inmates have contracted a fungal infection that can be lethal, and experts are asking why.
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The escape of a notorious jail-breaker has led to calls to overhaul Belgium's prison system.
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Tories and penal reformers accuse government of mismanagement of prison system
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Maximum-security confinement may be pushing already unstable criminals -- "the worst of the worst" -- toward mental breakdown. And that's not good for any of us
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A Belfast man who murdered his former girlfriend has his jail term increased from 10 to 15 years.