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01 May 1998

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Mandatory drug testing in prisons - an evaluation, Kimmet Edgar & Ian O'Donnell. Research Findings No 75 (Home Office Research and Statistics Directorate) 1998, pp4. This paper presents the results of a survey, of 148 prisoners in five jails, in response to the introduction of mandatory drug testing in March 1996.

Prison Privatisation Report International (Prison Reform Trust) Nos. 19 & 20 (April & May) 1998. These reports contain pieces on Group 4, the privately-run immigration detention centres at Campsfield and Tinsley House and incidents at HMP Parc as well as a round-up of news on private prisons around the world.

Prison Report (Prison Reform Trust) No. 43 (June) 1998. This issue includes Brendan O'Friel on industrial relations in the Prison Service; Clare Sparks on ways to reduce the prison population; Sir David Ramsbotham on the Prisons Inspectorate; Una Padel on the balance between security and prison visits and Nick Flynn on the release of politically-motivated prisoners in Northern Ireland.

A dossier of racism. CARF No. 44 (June/July) 1997, pp10-11. This article considers the "culture of racism at the heart of the prison system." It situates allegations of racism, brutality and torture at Wormwood Scrubs prison in the context of recent remarks by head of the Prison Service Richard Tilt and the contemptuous silence of Home Secretary, Jack Straw.

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