Today's Fresh Blogs...

• Drugs report urges less jail time, more rehab

  Published: September 5, 2007, 5:27 pm

  Tags: Community Society, Drugs Substance Abuse, Law Crime Justice, Prisons Punishment, Australia

  A new report commissioned by the Australian National Council on Drugs (ANCD) has recommended the Federal Government invest more on diversion programs and less on jail terms.

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• Bali jail chief nabbed for alleged drug running

  Published: September 10, 2007, 7:37 am

  Tags: Law Crime Justice, Crime, International Law, Prisons Punishment, Indonesia, Bali

  Indonesian police say the security chief at the Bali prison housing Schapelle Corby and the Bali nine has been running drugs in and out of the prison.

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• Chinese journalist freed after two years

  Published: September 16, 2007, 4:36 am

  Tags: Information Communication, Internet, Journalism, Law Crime Justice, Prisons Punishment, China

  A Chinese journalist imprisoned for two years for posting politically sensitive essays on the internet has been released.

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• UN urged to probe Supermax conditions

  Published: September 19, 2007, 12:31 am

  Tags: States Territories, Law Crime Justice, Prisons Punishment, Rights, Human, Australia, Nsw, Goulburn 2580

  The Council for Civil Liberties is calling on the the United Nations' special rapporteur on torture to investigate conditions at the Supermax prison in Goulburn, in southern New South Wales.

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• Police probe Hicks on range of topics

  Published: September 19, 2007, 3:05 am

  Tags: Law Crime Justice, Prisons Punishment, Unrest Conflict War, Terrorism, Adelaide 5000, Northfield 5085, Cuba

  Federal and South Australian Police have spent almost two hours interviewing convicted terrorism supporter David Hicks at Yatala Prison in Adelaide.

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• Imprisonment rates up 6pc

  Published: September 20, 2007, 1:46 am

  Tags: Community Society, Law Crime Justice, Prisons Punishment, Australia

  A report released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has revealed the number of people in full-time imprisonment has increased by 6 per cent over the past 12 months.

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• Former officer jailed over drink-driving death

  Published: September 21, 2007, 1:26 am

  Tags: Law Crime Justice, Crime, Police, Prisons Punishment, Qld, Brisbane 4000

  A former Brisbane police officer who was drunk at the wheel of his car has been sentenced to five years jail for killing his younger passenger.

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• Indonesian bomber escapes from jail: reports

  Published: September 24, 2007, 1:46 am

  Tags: Law Crime Justice, Prisons Punishment, Indonesia, Sulawesi

  Reports in Indonesia say an Islamic militant who was jailed for organising the bombing of a Christian-owned cafe has escaped from prison.

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• Indonesia rejects remaining two Bali bombers' appeals: report

  Published: September 24, 2007, 9:04 am

  Tags: Law Crime Justice, Courts Trials, Prisons Punishment, Unrest Conflict War, Terrorism, Indonesia

  Indonesia's Supreme Court has rejected final appeals from all three Islamic militants on death row for the 2002 Bali bombings, meaning they face execution by firing squad.

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• Porsche driver jailed for British speeding record

  Published: September 24, 2007, 7:35 pm

  Tags: Law Crime Justice, Prisons Punishment, United Kingdom

  A man caught speeding at a British record of 277 kilometres per hour was jailed for 10 weeks.

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• Iemma vows to plug child grooming loophole

  Published: September 25, 2007, 1:43 am

  Tags: Child Abuse, Government Politics, Federal Government, Federal State Issues, States Territories, Law Crime Justice, Laws, Prisons Punishment, Sexual Offences, Australia, Nsw

  The New South Wales Premier has announced new measures to protect children against sexual abuse.

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• Lethal injections under US Supreme Court review

  Published: September 25, 2007, 4:10 pm

  Tags: Law Crime Justice, Courts Trials, International Law, Prisons Punishment, United States

  The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case on whether executing people by lethal injection is constitutional.

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• Police investigate possible drug ring at Bali jail

  Published: September 26, 2007, 6:21 am

  Tags: Law Crime Justice, Crime, Police, Prisons Punishment, Drug Offences, Indonesia, Bali

  Indonesian police are investigating a possible drugs network in Bali's Kerobokan prison following the arrest of the prison's security chief in possession of methamphetamines.

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• Woman jailed over schoolgirl's hit-run death

  Published: September 26, 2007, 5:44 am

  Tags: Law Crime Justice, Courts Trials, Prisons Punishment, Brisbane 4000, Redcliffe 4020

  A 20-year-old woman has been sentenced to nine years jail for the hit-and-run death of a schoolgirl north of Brisbane.

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• Pentagon chief pushes to close Guantanamo

  Published: September 26, 2007, 7:00 pm

  Tags: Prisons Punishment, Unrest Conflict War, Terrorism, Cuba, United States

  US Defence Secretary Robert Gates said he wanted to close the US military prison at Guantanamo but could not forge agreement inside the Bush administration.

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