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01 May 2001

Penological Information Bulletin No 22 (December) 2000, pp130.

This issue contains articles on prison populations, conjugal prison visits in 30 European countries and the conclusions from the conference "The implementation of European standards for imprisonment and community sanctions and measures." Available from: Directorate General 1 - Legal Affairs, Department of Crime Problems, Penology and Criminology Division, Council of Europe, F-67075 Cedex, France.

Recent developments in prison law, Hamish Arnott & Simon Creighton. Legal Action June 2001, pp9-15.

Latest update on the law relating to prisoners and their rights covers legislative changes, parole and lifers, discipline, conditions, sentence calculation, determinate parole and personal injury.

Electronic monitoring of released prisoners: an evaluation of the Home Detention Curfew scheme, Ed Mortimor. Findings 139 (Home Office) 2001, pp4.

A year on the tag: interviews with criminal justice practitioners and electronic monitoring staff about curfew orders, Isabel Walter, Darren Sugg & Louise Moore. Findings 140 (Home Office) 2001, pp4.

Electronic monitoring and offending behaviour - reconviction results for the second year of trials of curfew orders, Darren Sugg, Louise Moore & Philip Howard. Findings 141 (Home Office) 2001, pp4.

Incarcerating racism, Suresh Grover. Agenda no 14 (Spring) 2001, pp8-10.

Grover argues that the Commission for Racial Equality's investigation into racism in the prison service will be worthless unless "it learns the hard fought lessons of the Lawrence inquiry and is fully prepared to involve the Mubarek family and allow the open public scrutiny of the events leading to Zahid's tragic, appalling and completely avoidable death."

Parliamentary debates

Strangeways Riot (Woolf Report) Commons 7.2.01 cols 294WH-302WH
Prison Conditions Commons 12.2.01 cols 37-79
Young Offenders Institutions Commons 13.2.01 cols 290-296