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• HMP Whitemoor inmate kept in segregation for two-and-a-half years, report finds

  26-09-2015 08:44
  
  Independent Monitoring Board for the Cambridgeshire jail also revealed staffing ‘merry-go-round’ and poor central managementAn inmate at a maximum-security prison has been kept in segregation for two-and-a-half years, according to a report by an organisation monitoring prisoners’ welfare.
  The Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) for HMP Whitemoor also revealed that it detained seven of the 24 prisoners held in segregation for more than six months across England’s high-secur
  
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• Australia up for human rights council seat despite UN official's criticism of asylum secrecy

  26-09-2015 03:22
  
  Special rapporteur on human rights of migrants condemns Australia for not letting him into detention centres as Julie Bishop lobbies for seat in New York
  Australia has reconfirmed its desire for a seat on the UN’s powerful human rights council. However, its international reputation has been battered by a UN human rights official postponing a trip to Australia because, he says, the government refused access to detention centres, and threatened “reprisals”, including jail, agains
  
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