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Brian Cheung on Criminal justice reform and rehabilitation

The chief problem of the criminal justice system is arguably the sheer quantity of individuals being locked up. The prison population is upwards of 85,000, which means about 1 in every 1,000 UK residents. Prisons are overcrowding. A second problem, closely related to the first, is the cost of imprisonment. It has been estimated that the annual average cost of imprisonment is £40,000 per prisoner and that the marginal cost (i.e. of each new place in prison) is £119,000.

Exchange Editor on Wikileaks best pick

Do you know what WIKILEAKS is? On their words: “WikiLeaks is a multi-jurisdictional public service designed to protect whistleblowers, journalists and activists who have sensitive materials to communicate to the public.

President on UN declares clean water a ‘fundamental human right’

29th July.

The UN has declared that access to clean water and sanitation is a fundamental human right (from the BBC)

Roni on Cuts or Exploitation?

21st June.

Lib Con coalition finds, allegedly find a previously unknown black hole in the budget that warrants further exploitation is the most vulnerably stripping them of the few rights they had managed to hang on to..just.

Roni on The Aid Flotilla

1st June.

The governments in the West have been less than united in their response to the imposition of this blockade, except for occasional mild utterings of their ‘deep regrets’ and ‘unacceptable’ nature of it. This has been less than satisfactory for many in the West. The number of high profile westerners on Gaza aid flotilla is an indication of that.

Roni on Turkey and Iran are the main beneficiaries of the illegal blockade of Gaza

1st June.

Disingenuous Iran and Turkey are shedding crocodile tears over the plight of Palestinians in Gaza whilst perpetuating gross violations at home against their own citizens.

Roni on Child Prisoners of Conscience

4th February.

Díyarébekir Prison is overflowing with Kurdish Children detained, charged and tried for being unpatriotic and allegedly disloyal to Turkey

Roni on American Invasion by Default

17th January.

Haiti relinquishes control of its airport and security to the US.

President on Freedom of Expression, UCL and the Detroit Bomb Plot

9th January.

Solutions address causes, and the University is not itself a cause

Pasquale Annicchino on We hold these truths

4th January.

Academic freedom, UCL and freedom of expression

Roni on Democracy or Military Junta?

14th December.

The 10th Kurdish Political Party banned by Turkey

Roni on Zaynab Jalalian’s Letter to the world’s Conscience

3rd December.

On Death Penalty for political views in Iran