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01 January 2000

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Equal opportunities and the Prison Service in England and Wales, Jill Enterkin. The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice Vol 38, no 4 (November) 1999, pp353-265. This article examines the Prison Service's cross-posting policy, the main plank of its compliance with the Sex Discrimination Act 1975. It concludes that "integration has been strongly influenced by sexual stereotyping and an informal and arbitrary application of the deployment policy."

Projections of long term trends in the prison population to 2007, Philip White & Christopher Cullen. Home Office Research Bulletin Issue 2/00 (Home Office, Research, Development and Statistics Directorate) 10.2.00, pp16 ISSN 1358-510X. The paper uses three scenarios to predict prison populations of a. 80,300, b. 74,400 or c. 70,400 by the year 2007. However, it notes that: "No projection made between 1990 and 1994 forecast the relatively [sic] rapid rise in the prison population which has occurred since 1994."

Making the tag fit: further analysis from the first two years of the trials of curfew orders, Ed Mortimer, Eulalia Pereira & Isabel Walter. Research Findings (Home Office Research,
Development and Statistics Directorate) No. 105, 1999, pp4. These Findings summarise research from the first two years of electronic monitoring trials.

Developments in prison law, Hamish Arnott & Simon Creighton. Legal Action January 2000, pp18-24. Latest update on the law relating to prisoners and their rights.

Home detention curfew - the first year of operation, Kath Dodgson & Ed Mortimer. Research Findings (Home Office research and Statistics Directorate) No 110, pp4. The Home Office Home Detention Curfew scheme, "one of the biggest electronic monitoring programmes in the world", was introduced in England and Wales in January 1999. Over 16,000 eligible prisoners have been tagged and this briefing summarises the results of evaluation.

Parliamentary debates

Deaths in Custody Lords 24.1.00. cols. 1325-1327
Prison Suicides Lords 1.2.00. cols. 67-70

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