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An apprenticeships scheme is being proposed which could fill 5,000 welding vacancies in the defence industry sector. Daily Express :: News Feed
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Israel’s Supreme Court says Palestinian prisoners are not being fed enough
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Read More »Prisoners to be released after serving just a third of their sentences under new plans
A controversial reform is on the horizon, suggesting a third of a sentence might be enough for some prisoners. Is this the key to solving prison overcrowding? Daily Express :: News Feed
Read More »Security checks for UK’s most radical prisoners taken away because they were ‘offended’
Justice chiefs were accused of “pandering” to jihadists in HMP Frankland, County Durham, after sniffer dogs were removed from searches. Daily Express :: News Feed
Read More »New plan revealed to kick foreign prisoners out of country as 10,000 still in UK jails
A new ‘crack squad’ will speed up expulsions according to the Ministry for Justice Daily Express :: News Feed
Read More »Trump threatens Iran, mulls deporting U.S. prisoners, says no future for Palestinians in Gaza
U.S. President Donald Trump threatened Iran, floated the idea of deporting U.S. citizens convicted of crimes and said Palestinians may have no alternative but to leave Gaza in wide-ranging comments to reporters at the White House on Tuesday. CBC | World News
Read More »UK plots to deport prisoners to EU country in battle to free space in British jails
Magistrates have been asked to stop jailing criminals for several weeks in a bid to ease pressure on Britain’s overcrowded prisons. Daily Express :: News Feed
Read More »Ukraine and Russia swap more than 100 prisoners
The Russian Defence Ministry said the 115 Russian soldiers had been captured in the Kursk region, where Ukrainian forces launched their surprise offensive into Russia two weeks ago. Ukraine said the 115 Ukrainian servicemen who were freed were conscripts. CBC | World News
Read More »Reading can help prisoners to ‘walk in someone else’s shoes’, says Mick Herron
Mick Herron steps into the daylight beyond the imposing main entrance of HMP Bullingdon in Oxfordshire and breathes deeply. The spy writing superstar had been addressing a reading workshop for some 35 inmates at the Category B prison, sharing the story behind his globally successful Slow Horses series, adapted for the television starring Gary Oldman as larger-than-life spymaster Jackson Lamb. ...
Read More »Incredible life of Winston Churchill’s favourite spy who saved Nazi prisoners
As wartime SOE agent Krystyna Skarbek is honoured with a photograph at the National Portrait Gallery in London as part of a new exhibition on female spies, her biographer Clare Mulley recounts this extraordinary woman’s story… and her unbelievably tragic end Daily Express :: Entertainment Feed
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