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Rural livelihoods at risk due to firearms fees hike, warns BASC

The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has warned that the government’s decision to significantly increase firearms licensing fees poses a threat to rural livelihoods and fails to deal with gross inefficiencies which in many cases provides an unacceptable service. Moreover, an inefficient system is an ineffective system, and this puts public safety at… Read more »

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Prison governors are proposing the abolition of prison sentences of less than a year it was revealed today.
End short term sentences say prison governors

By politics.co.uk staff Prison governors are proposing the abolition of prison sentences of less than a year it was revealed today. At its annual conference later today, the Prison Governors’ Association (PGA) will call for short term sentences to be scrapped because they are failing to reform criminals and leading to record overcrowding in jails…. Read more »

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Some prisons are housing almost double the number of prisoners they were intended to hold.
Overcrowded prisons ‘act as a university of crime’

By Liz Stephens Overcrowded prisons and high reoffending levels are being deliberately overlooked by ministers according to a damning report published today. The Prison Reform Trust published figures showing some prisons are housing almost double the number of prisoners they were intended to hold. The Trust also found that overcrowded jails were not preventing re-offending…. Read more »