prison rehabilitation
BASC has welcomed the announcement by the Secretary of State for Defra of a new general licence (GL45) for the release of game birds (pheasant and red legged partridges) on or near certain Special Protection Areas (SPAs) in England. After the chaos of last year’s announcement at short notice, BASC has achieved significant improvements to… Read more »
BASC has recently organised three Introduction to Wildfowling workshops for Natural England (NE) staff. The events were aimed at equipping NE staff with the knowledge and understanding of wildfowling which would ultimately help them make informed, pragmatic consenting decisions on protected and designated sites. More than 40 NE staff, as well as members of local… Read more »
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Britain’s most senior judge has painted a worrying picture of the penal system, describing prisons as “social dustbins” for problematic residents. In an interview with the Observer, lord chief justice Lord Phillips said that current levels of overcrowding had made inmate rehabilitation “difficult or impossible”. Last week the government revealed that Britain’s prisons were nearly… Read more »
The home secretary’s plans to build more prisons have been condemned as “desperately short-sighted” after new figures show they will fall far short of the numbers needed. John Reid last week announced the building of 8,000 more prison places in England and Wales, taking the total up to almost 90,000 by 2012. But the latest… Read more »