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01 December 1995

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A crisis in custody: findings from a survey of juveniles in prison awaiting trial. Assoc. of Chief Officers of Probation/NACRO pp35 1995. This report contains the findings of a survey of juveniles remanded to prisons in England and Wales between October 1983 and September 1994; it notes an increase of 86% in the number of juveniles awaiting trial.

The imprisonment of fine defaulters. Penal Affairs Consortium July 1995 8pp. Report details a one-third increase in imprisonment of fine defaulters since 1990; for women the increase is 68%.

Prison Watch press release no. 123. Prison Watch 17.6.95. On the death of Paul Shaw who was found hanging in his cell on 16.6.95 at HMP Liverpool. Shaw's death is the twenty third recorded by Prison Watch in 1995.

Parliamentary debates:

Prisons (return to custody) Bill Lords 16.5.95. cols. 488-94 Prison (amendment) rules 1995 Lords 23.5.95. cols. 1019-1032

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