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01 May 1999

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The new Prison Rules 1999, Hamish Scott & Simon Creighton. Legal Action May 1999, pp29-30. This feature discusses the changes in the new Prison Rules which were introduced on 1 April, replacing the previous rules that had been in existence since 1964.

Deaths in prison custody: a protocol containing guidance to the prison service on pre-inquest disclosure (PID). Prison Service April 1999, pp3 + annex. Prison Service protocol containing guidance on the disclosure of information.

Annual Report 1998. HM Inspectorate of Probation (1999) pp42.

Suicide is everyone's concern: a thematic review by HM Chief Inspector of Prisons for England and Wales. HM Inspectorate of Prisons (HMSO), May 1999, pp136.

Civil and political rights, including questions of torture and detention. National Coalition of Anti-Deportation Campaigns Newsletter Issue 15 (July-September) 1999. Extracts of the report of the "Working Group on Arbitrary detention" on its 1998 visit to the UK, examining prisons and detention centres, including Wormwood Scrubs, Campsfield and Harmondsworth. Among their demands are the release of large numbers of asylum seekers on grounds of lack of space, shorter detention periods and the separation of detained refugees from convicted criminals. Info: ncadc@ncadc.demon.co.uk

Parliamentary debates

Prison Service Commons 12.5.99. cols. 233-255
Feltham Young Offenders Institution Commons 26.5.99. cols. 313-320

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