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• Cramped Victorian prisons limiting rehabilitation, chief inspector says

  03-05-2025 09:00
  Charlie Taylor says old, overcrowded jails in England and Wales were never designed for education and trainingThe cramped conditions of Victorian prisons in England and Wales are limiting the rehabilitation opportunities for thousands of offenders, an official watchdog has said.As the Guardian launches a visual investigation into the state of Victorian prisons in inner cities and towns, the chief inspector of prisons, Charlie Taylor, said 19th century jails could also be “incredibly noisy
  
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• 31 of England’s prisons are Victorian. Do they work? – visual investigation

  03-05-2025 09:00
  Many jails still in use today were built by the Victorians. Here’s how their 19th-century design is contributing to a 21st-century crisisEngland in the 1840s was a place of dizzying industry, rapid urbanisation and technological progress.Among the proliferation of inventions, a new type of building was unveiled to the world. A prison, K-shaped with long corridors made of sure, thick walls, and small windows in cold, solitary cells.The new prison will be most conducive to the reformation of
  
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• Does human rights law really stop the UK controlling migration? No – and Keir Starmer knows that | Jamie Burton

  03-05-2025 07:00
  It would be wrong for Labour to collude in the attack on the European convention. It’s fuelled by myths and false narrativesHere’s a recent quote from a Downing Street source: “We have to be able to say something on this that isn’t just defending the status quo.”The aide was discussing the European convention on human rights (ECHR), a postwar treaty to protect the freedoms of people in Europe, ratified by the UK in 1951. Although it was also central to Keir Starmer&
  
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• Trump order targeting law firm Perkins Coie is unconstitutional, judge rules

  03-05-2025 03:27
  US district judge Beryl Howell says order violates first, fifth and sixth amendments and permanently blocks it A federal judge on Friday permanently struck down Donald Trump’s executive order that targeted the firm Perkins Coie, which once worked with his 2016 presidential election rival Hillary Clinton, after declaring in an extraordinary ruling that the order was unconstitutional and unlawful.The decision from the US district judge Beryl Howell, which criticized virtually every aspect of
  
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• US asks judge to break up Google’s ad tech business after requesting Chrome sale

  03-05-2025 00:00
  
  After Google lost its first monopoly trial, government asks it to sell off units of its core internet ads businessGoogle on Friday faced a demand by the US government to break up its hugely profitable ad technology business. The request came after a judge found the tech giant was commanding an illegal monopoly for the second time in less than a year.“We have a defendant who has found ways to defy” the law, US government lawyer Julia Tarver Wood told a federal court in Virginia, as sh
  
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