Rise in murder by freed offenders
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Nearly 100 murders have been committed by offenders on probation in the past two years, Home Office figures show.
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Home Office figures show drug offences have risen by 14% in the last year, despite overall decline.
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A study reveals that environmental improvements such as cleaner cells could cut violence in UK jails.
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Murder rates for 2004 decline in many cities, but gang violence leads to some exceptions.
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Aborigines are 13 times more likely  than other Australians to go to prison, with poverty,  unemployment and poor education behind a sharp jump in the  number of indigenous jailings, a report said on Friday.
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Homicide figures released by the Scottish Government reveal a rise in deaths in the last year.
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The number of women in state and federal prisons is at an all-time high and growing fast, with the incarceration rate for females increasing at nearly twice that of men, the government reported Sunday.
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After a father is jailed for killing his daughter, human rights campaigners say "honour" crimes are increasing.
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Police killings of suspects rose dramatically in Sao Paulo in 2006, the year a notorious gang unleashed a wave of violence that some human rights activists say prompted revenge executions.
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The recovery of New Orleans slowly  drags on two years after Hurricane Katrina but one thing back  in full swing since the killer storm is crime, particularly  murders.
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The number of people in U.S. prisons and jails or on probation or parole reached a record 7 million at the end of last year, accounting for about 3 percent of the nation's adult population, the Justice Department reported on Thursday.
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Tough sentencing laws, record numbers of drug offenders and high crime rates have contributed to the United States having the largest prison population and the highest rate of incarceration in the world, according to criminal justice experts.
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Even though more countries are renouncing the death penalty, more people were put to death last year &#151; 5,628 &#151; than in the past two years, an anti-death penalty group reported Thursday.
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Japan's prisons are at their most crowded in years, a result of rising crime and longer sentences.
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The number of defendants referred to the CPS for racially motivated crimes rose by 13% last year.
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A convicted and registered offender writes in with his side of the story.
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A prison inmate has been linked by DNA evidence to the killings of a dozen women in Los Angeles, including three slayings for which another man was wrongly convicted.