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INQUEST - Launched in 1981 to campaign against deaths in custody and for changes in the Coroner's Court system, it is the only organization in England and Wales which is exclusively concerned with deaths in custody and inquests.
Police Corruption - Run by ex Surrey Police Officers, aims to provide information about corruption and support to serving officers who wish to complain. Includes Home Office documents, personal experiences and discussion forum.
CCF - The Cognitive Centre Foundation - Independent organisation working with the Criminal Justice System to promote the effective practice of working with criminal offenders
Telford Training Consultants - Offering approved offender courses for those convicted of drink-driving. Details of courses, on-line application and contact details.
Law or Justice? - Frank exposure of corruption, institutional or personal, among Britain's judges. Class and race biases - doesn't pull any punches.
Stephen Lawrence Inquiry - Online version of Final Report and Action Plan progress associated with Sir William Macpherson's Inquiry into the death of Stephen Lawrence on 22 April 1993 to identify the lessons to be learned for the investigation and prosecution of racially motivated crimes. Final report February 1999, action plans ongoing.
Dismissal of Myra Hindley's Appeal for Release on 30th March 2000 - Full text of the findings of the Lords of Appeal for Judgment.
The Prison Reform Trust - Aims to create a just, humane, and effective penal system. Research, publications, current projects, and event information.
Reprieve - Anti death penalty organization. Information on Britons on death row worldwide, on the death penalty in the Caribbean and in the USA. Links to like-minded institutions.
Public Record Office on Capital Punishment - A perspective on, and review of, capital punishment from the Public Records Office, including details of some cases where the verdict was reversed on appeal.
Suffolk Police Survey 2000 - A survey of policemen's attitutes to policing, crime and punishment, including the death penalty.
Sister Joy and Margot's Story of Death Row - How a nun befriended a death-row inmate, since executed. Information such as spirituality on death row, prayers against the death penalty and what else you can do to help.
Justice for All - Government "White Paper" on reform of the criminal justice system, including controversial proposals such as decriminalization of offences and limiting the right to trial by jury.
Action for Justice and the Campaign for A Fair Hearing - Examines examples of injustice in the UK criminal justice system and calls for ministerial accountability and constitutional reform. Offers links to a wide variety of campaign sites and political resources.
"The most corrupt British judges" - Fully-documented cases where the author alleges corruption.
PoliceUK.com - Online resource for police recruitment and general policing information in the UK. Includes police news, history and background information on police ranks and pay scales.
Legal Survival - Site critical of the UK Social Services, NSPCC and CAFCASS, as well as the law enforcement and justice system which defends them. Details procedures which the author argues are injust or inhumane.
European Court of Human Rights, United Kingdom v Stafford - The full text of the judgement which calls into question the UK Home Secretary's rights to be involved in sentencing through the imposition of "whole-life" tariffs and which may be used by people such as Myra Hindley to secure their release.
Guardian Special Reports: Crime - News, comment and backgrounders on issues and specific crimes plus video clips and web resources.
Guardian Special Reports: Prisons - Ongoing coverage includes news, comment, analysis and backgrounders plus the prison diaries of Erwin James.
NACRO - The National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders. Works with ex-offenders, disadvantaged people and deprived communities. Includes campaign news and events diary.
Prison Information UK - Publishes The Prisons Handbook and maintains the Institute of Prison Law.
UNLOCK - National Association of Ex-Offenders - Campaigns for better facilities for serving prisoners, and to support ex-offenders in rebuilding their lives. Includes campaign news.
CjScotland - Daily news service and information exchange about criminal justice in Scotland.
The Portia Campaign - Fighting against miscarriages of justice in the UK. Includes news and case histories.
Observer Special Reports: Crime and Justice - Selected archive of news and analysis including exclusive online commentary.
The Howard League for Penal Reform - Independent charity, working for humane and effective reform of the penal system in England and Wales: consultative status with UN, NGO working with the UK Government.
Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. -- Thomas Jefferson "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. -- ROBERT FROST Crime and Justice We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour. -- G. K. Chesterton I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial. - Irvin S. Cobb To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect. --Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Crime and Justice Who the hell wants to hear actors talk? - H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Study men, not historians. -- Harry Truman The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. -- Thomas Jefferson I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known. -- Walt Disney Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... -- Anonymous Crime and Justice He who awaits much can expect little. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed. -- Christopher Morley Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Crime and Justice They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go. -- Anonymous Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely. -- Bette-Jane Raphael Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage. -- Ambrose Bierce I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. -- Virginia Woolf Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. -- Mark Twain Crime and Justice I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work. -- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it. -- Shirley MacLaine After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. -- Aldous Huxley Crime and Justice I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years. -- Sam Kinison Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it. -- Helen Roland The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. -- George Bernard Shaw Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction. -- John Cage A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee. -- Polish proverb Crime and Justice Luck is the residue of design. - Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Crime and Justice "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories. -- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby. -- Nigerian Proverb The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. -- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Crime and Justice Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away. -- Mary Alice Messenger Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. - Antoine de Saint Exupery What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours. -- Woody Allen Crime and Justice Live out of your imagination, not your history. -- Stephen Covey If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage. -- Will Rogers Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile. -- Billy Sunday "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Crime and Justice I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting. -- John Brown - last words "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child. -- Anne Sullivan Crime and Justice You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. -- Richard Bach The time is always right to do what is right. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. -- Lord Byron "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Crime and Justice "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry. -- Rita Rudner I just need enough to tide me over until I need more. -- Bill Hoest Crime and Justice Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. -- Mark Twain He would make a lovely corpse. - Charles Dickens "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera. - James Stephens Politics have no relation to morals. -- Niccolo Machiavelli Crime and Justice Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. -- Al Capp "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. -- G. K. Chesterton Crime and Justice Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the mother. -- Claudette Colbert Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love. -- Albert Einstein If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. -- Scott Adams One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way. -- Vincent Van Gogh Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. -- Anonymous Crime and Justice Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword. -- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it. -- Herman Melville blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Crime and Justice Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one more letter she'd have to remember. -- Shecky Greene "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to. -- Seen on a t-shirt There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the lev Crime and Justice Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room. -- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in a car he sticks his head out the window. -- Steve Bluestone Crime and Justice Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes. -- Brendan Hills LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it. -- Alexandre Dumas fils Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. -- Gandhi Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house. -- Jean Ke Crime and Justice "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Crime and Justice
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