New powers to cut off illicit mobile phones used in prisons

UncategorizedBy hardwood_adm11th August 2016

The Guardian Jails in England and Wales can seek orders requiring mobile network operators to blacklist handsets and disconnect sim cards Home Office security minister Ben Wallace said it was ‘totally unacceptable’ for prisoners to orchestrate crimes from behind bars. Photograph: Paul Faith/PA New powers to cut off illicit mobile phones used by prisoners to…

Plans to replace Human Rights Act with new ‘British Bill’ could be scrapped

UncategorizedBy hardwood_adm11th August 2016

The Independent Theresa May has long been a critic of human rights laws The Government has repeatedly failed to meet its manifesto promise of abolishing the Human Rights Act PA The so-called British Bill of Rights could be “junked” or rewritten by Theresa May in the wake of the vote to leave the European Union,…