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• Prison lawyers warn more will quit if legal aid fees not raised in England and Wales

  06-08-2023 13:00
  
  Exclusive: 74% of prison lawyers surveyed do not anticipate doing the work in three years’ timeLawyers who do vital prison work, often helping vulnerable inmates, will continue to desert the speciality if legal aid fees in England and Wales are not increased, their professional association has warned.A survey by the Association of Prison Lawyers (APL) found that 74% of respondents did not anticipate being prison law legal aid lawyers in three years’ time, coming on the back of an 85%
  
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• Trump’s assault on American justice gives inspiration to authoritarians everywhere | Jill Abramson

  06-08-2023 10:03
  
  Last week’s outburst against his prosecutors is part of a long campaign that many fear is in danger of subverting democracyAmerican democracy is only as strong as its legal system. The founders of the country created the judiciary as the third branch of the federal government to keep executive power in check and prevent corruption. So it was a cause for deep concern last week when Donald Trump unleashed a verbal tantrum on his Truth Social platform, accusing special counsel Jack Smith of &
  
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• The Observer view on Britain’s brutal and overcrowded prisons posing a risk to us all | Observer editorial

  06-08-2023 07:03
  
  Nothing will change until politicians of all parties acknowledge that too many people are in prisonBritain’s public service infrastructure has been radically transformed over the past couple of centuries. But, as noted by former prime minister John Major earlier this year, one standout exception is the prison system.Many prisons were built in the Victorian era, when they were designed to house a single prisoner per cell. In today’s dangerously overcrowded estate, their cells often ho
  
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• Two-thirds of sexual assault support centres in England branded inadequate

  06-08-2023 07:00
  
  Inspectors find failures to protect victims and risks of contaminating forensic evidenceMore than two-thirds of England’s specialist support centres for victims of sexual assault or abuse have been found to have flaws in the care they offer in their most recent full inspections, the Observer can reveal.Almost half were found to be breaching their minimum legal obligations to victims in their last full inspection, with problems ranging from a failure to deal with suicide and self-harm risks
  
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• Wrongly convicted in Britain no longer forced to pay ‘saved living costs’ in prison

  06-08-2023 01:01
  
  The government has scrapped controversial guidance over deductions to compensation in miscarriage of justice casesPeople who have been wrongly convicted will no longer have to pay living expenses for the time they spent in prison, the government will announce on Sunday after widespread outrage over the case of Andrew Malkinson.One of Britain’s longest-serving victims of a miscarriage of justice, Malkinson, 57, had his conviction overturned last month by the court of appeal after spending 1
  
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• Ian Watkins, singer jailed for sexually abusing children, ‘stabbed in prison’

  06-08-2023 01:01
  
  Former Lostprophets frontman reportedly taken to hospital after being held hostage by other inmates at HMP WakefieldIan Watkins, the former lead singer with Lostprophets who was jailed for 29 years for child sexual abuse, has reportedly been stabbed at HMP Wakefield.He is said to have been taken to hospital after being stabbed at the prison in West Yorkshire. Continue reading...
  
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• Ian Watkins, singer jailed for child sex offences, ‘stabbed in prison’

  06-08-2023 01:01
  
  Former Lostprophets frontman reportedly taken to hospital after being held hostage by other inmates at HMP WakefieldIan Watkins, the former lead singer with Lostprophets who was jailed for 29 years for child sex offences, has reportedly been stabbed at HMP Wakefield.He is said to have been taken to hospital after being stabbed at the prison in West Yorkshire. Continue reading...
  
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