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- Prison assaults: The consequence of a dangerous gamble
 - Urgent call for action as prison suicides soar and homicide rate reaches highest level for 15 years
 - Fortified schools: doing more of the same and expecting a different result
 - Sentencing statistics should not be manipulated to stoke up fear
 - ‘This could be your house burgled’: The dangers of privatising probation
 - 17-year-olds in police custody should be treated as children, High Court rules
 - Ashfield Prison punished children unlawfully, High Court rules after Howard League legal challenge
 
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