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01 November 1999

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The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974: the case for review and reform. Penal Affairs Consortium (November) 1999. This paper makes the case for a fundamental review of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act. It contains three recommendations on spent prison sentences, shortening of rehabilitation periods and an appeal system for offenders who have served a sentence of over four years but who have not reoffended for at least seven years and can show a demonstrable change of lifestyle.

Prison Privatisation Report International. Prison Reform Trust, No 31 (October) 1999, pp4. This issue focuses on a new "competitive tendering exercise in the UK and new policy statements by the Government" in light of the decision to withdraw Group 4's prison management contract in October.

Action on prisons, Daniel Machover. Legal Action October 1999, pp9-10. This piece considers the Prison Service's Performance Standards Programme and the Wormwood Scrubs Action Plan (July 1999) in light of the arrest of 25 prison officers on charges of assaulting prisoners.

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