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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.

Statement by Navanethem Pillay UNHCHR - human rights diplomacy: An oxymoron?

2nd November.

Social change and human rights activism need not always scream of breaches and outrage publicly. The High Commissioner’s recent statement reflects on the the quieter and potent tools of diplomacy and it’s role in the protection of human rights.

Cartoon of the week: 9 July 2009

9th July.

Steve Bell responds to the call for a public inquiry into claims that the UK government outsourced torture

An insider’s guide to the UCL ECHR Moot Final - the week that Obama stalked us

8th April.

Moots, musings and going the distance to the European Court of Human Rights: A Review


Cartoon of the week: 5 April 2009

5th April.

Oliphant’s latest Gaza cartoon has reignited the firing lines between antisemitism and the political all over again

Cartoon of the Week

16th March.

Bereft of any political impact, a confused and outdated spate of violent republicanism returns in cold blood to Northern Ireland