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Howard League for Penal Reform urges closures and community sentencing to tackle 'bloated and dysfunctional' system

Cherie Booth QC has endorsed a call to close some prisons and hand the management of the rest of the prison system in England and Wales over to local communities.

The final report from the two-year Commission on English Prisons Today says that a significant cut is needed in the 84,000 prison population, with community-based punishments replacing short-term prison sentences. Read more.

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World Government – necessary and inevitable

Francisco César Pinheiro

The title of the present essay might provoke skeptical laughter in the arena of International Public Law and among experienced scholars of international relations. But they are intellectuals, who at present hold the attention of only a small number of sophisticated readers with their academic writings. If the need and urgency argued here prove to be true, they will be the voluntary or involuntary "obstetricians" of a new world order. The new world "baby" is being announced via nausea, strange "famines" and other alterations in the behavior of old mother Earth, who is a bit old for new concepts and worn out with ideological illusions, the discoverers of dynamite, endless conflicts, uncertainties and the very concrete physical suffering of her less favored children.

A tribute to the bicentenary of Abraham Lincoln on Law Day

Jayme Vita Roso

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