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Revealed: one in three jailed pregnant women in England and Wales still to face trial

28-10-2023 18:38

New data on prisons has added to calls by campaigners to end custodial sentences for expectant mothersOne in three pregnant women in prison are being held on remand awaiting trial, new data obtained by the Observer can reveal.Figures collected through a freedom of information request show that between April 2022 and March 2023, 34% of pregnant women in prisons in England and Wales for whom data was available were being detained before their trial. Continue reading...

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Major UK retailers urged to quit ‘authoritarian’ police facial recognition strategy

28-10-2023 17:00

Human rights campaigners say the Pegasus initiative wrongly criminalises people of colour, women and LGBTQ+ peopleSome of Britain’s biggest retailers, including Tesco, John Lewis and Sainsbury’s, have been urged to pull out of a new policing strategy amid warnings it risks wrongly criminalising people of colour, women and LGBTQ+ people.A coalition of 14 human rights groups has written to the main retailers – also including Marks & Spencer, the Co-op, Next, Boots and Primark

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AI firms may pay a high price for their software’s artistic abilities | John Naughton

28-10-2023 17:00

Computer-generated art seemed magical at first, but it works by ‘scraping’ the creations of real people. Now they’re angry, and have the tools to fight backThose whom the gods wish to destroy they first give access to Midjourney, a text-to-graphics “generative AI” that is all the rage. It’s engagingly simple to use: type in a text prompt describing a kind of image you’d like it to generate, and up comes a set of images that you couldn’t ever have p

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‘Trial within a trial’: Trump’s strategy on verge of imploding

28-10-2023 12:00

The ex-president faces two trials that will set the tone for the messy ones ahead: his New York fraud trial, and an unofficial trial in the court of public opinionIn a scene that could have been pulled from a Hollywood courtroom thriller, Donald Trump was called to the witness box last week and accused of threatening a clerk of the court.The former president had already been fined for attacking the judge’s clerk. Now he had done it again and the usually jocular Judge Arthur Engoron angrily

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Why king’s speech could be pivotal policy moment for Sunak’s survival

28-10-2023 09:00

Constrained on multiple fronts by finances and resistance from both wings of his party, the PM still has a few vote-winning optionsExhausted by scandals, deflated by byelection defeats and uninspired by their leader at Conservative party conference, many of Rishi Sunak’s MPs are not looking forward to the next year in politics. “It’s hard to muster the enthusiasm to come out fighting given everything that has happened,” said one Tory adviser.But Sunak appears still to be

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