The government’s through care for prisoners is under fire. A CARATS worker lifts the lid on the service and questions the validity of outsiders giving services on the inside. All stick and no CARATS (PDF) Additional keywords: prisons
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Druglink article 2002 – Young offenders: can we fix them? by Glyn Halksworth
Young drug users present major challenges to the whole range of child service providers including drug workers. Druglink article 2002 – Young offenders: can we fix them? (PDF)
Druglink article 2012 – Strange bedfellows by Marcus Roberts
As Mark Twain’s mate and fellow writer Charles Warner observed, ‘politics makes for strange bedfellows’ – and none stranger than in the world of drug law reform. As Peter Hitchens and Kathy Gyngell lined up to give evidence to the Home Affairs Select Committee…
Druglink article 2012 – Stop and search by Caroline Oubridge
Ineffective, unfair and racist are just three of the criticisms levelled at police stop and search powers. Thirteen years after the spotlight of the Macpherson report, Caroline Oubridge reports on the status of this controversial tactic. Stop and search (PDF)
Druglink article 2012 – Weeding out the dope by Harry Shapiro
It’s five years since Druglink last covered the phenomenon of cannabis farms, during which time the national picture has changed considerably and in the process put police resources under considerable strain. Weeding out the dope (PDF)
Druglink article 2012 – Time to end the ‘war on drugs’? by Marcus Roberts
The blanket use of ‘war on drugs’ does more to conceal than expose the worst abuses that are committed in its name internationally. Time to end the ‘war on drugs’? (PDF)
Druglink article 2002 – Policing cannabis reclassification – easy as A B C by Geoff Monaghan
In March 2000 the Independent Inquiry into the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 set up by the Police Foundation published its recommendations for legal reforms. The inquiry made 81 recommendations, 9 on cannabis. Policing cannabis reclassification – easy as A…
Druglink article 2001 – Confined opportunity: arrest referral by Paul Townsley
Setting up an arrest referral service raises practical problems of staff recruitment and development and working closely with a hierarchical organisation which also commissions the service. Confined opportunity: arrest referral (PDF)
Druglink article 2001 – Zero tolerance: misreading results by Travis Wendel
Zero tolerance policing in New York City has been a model for others, but its success appears to be coincidental to other social and economic factors Zero tolerance: misreading results (PDF)
Druglink article 2012 – Burden of proof by Gail Jones
Prison drug treatment programmes can cut re-offending but, claims Gail Jones of Rapt, the lack of a solid evidence base is putting their future at risk. Burden of proof (PDF)