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The justice secretary has admitted the proportion of people released from prison who are being recalled is very high , as ministers prepare to free m
stanley thermobecher ore inmates to relieve an overcrowding crisis.Shabana Mahmood said figures would not yet be available for the number of prisoners who had been returned after the f
stanley cup irst wave of prison releases in September, but said it was likely they would be high in line with rates in recent years.On Tuesday in the second tranche of releases in England and Wales, 1,100 criminals serving sentences of five years or more will be released from prison early to ease the crisis. Mahmood said she was determined that this would be the last emergency release.The justice secretary said she did not think the return rate would be as high as 50%, the figure put to her by the BBC, but said: The rates of recall [in recent years] are very high, and that is true. And the issue here is people are released on licence, they have strict licence conditions that they have to abide by. If they break those licence conditions, it is right that they are recalled to prison. So that shows that the system is working as it should. You know, youre not just out and free. Youre serving the licence. You have to stick by those conditions. If you break them, you are recalled to prison. She said the statistics would not be available until later in the year but added: What I can tell you is our early assessment is that the rates of recall and potent
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Ladies, don your pantsuits, and gents, grab your red power ties: we re headed to Washington for the main e
water bottle stanley vent. Friday s announcement that the supreme court will weigh in on same-sex marriage, and that it will hear not one but two appeals, might have terrified gay advocates just a few years ago. But after a string of triumphs in lower courts and at the ballot box, and in the midst of a startling shift in public opinion, every major gay organization in
stanley tumblers America reacted to the high court s decision with justified optimism. We may not win legalization in all 50 states. But the excitement with which gay Americans have embraced the writs of this very conservative supreme court shows that we re ready for the big time.The court, as expected, is hearing an appeal of US v Windsor, which challenges the Defense of Marriage Act, or Doma, the law that denies the federal benefits of marriage to gay couples married in any state. More surprisingly, they also deigned to hear Hollingsworth v Perry formerly Perry v Brown , the case concerning California s Proposition 8.Lawyers Ted Olson and David Boies, our favorite heterosexual odd couple, have argued that denying gays and lesbians the right to marry is a violation of the 14th amendment s due process and equal protection clauses, and they ve won twice: broadly in district court, more narrowly on appeal. That the supremes felt they couldn t leave it there implies that
stanley kubek at least four justices the number required to grant certiorari want to make