Too many locked up (1)
01 January 1991
Too many locked up
artdoc June=1992
Six out of ten people jailed on remand are acquitted or given a
non-custodial sentence, according to the Howard League for Penal
Reform. The figures showed that `the criminal justice system was
culpable of a gross violation of human rights', said the League,
whose survey revealed that nearly 66,000 people were remanded in
custody in 1989, for an average of 36-54 days for men, and 25-41
days for women. It pointed out that in 1991, of the 500,000
people bailed on criminal charges, only 10% committed offences
on bail.
Guardian 14.4.92.
Statewatch, vol 2, no 3, May-June 1992
Prisons