Immigration goes online to boost security / [Thailand] Phuket Gazette, 5 Aug 2004

http://www.phuketgazette.net/news/index.asp?id=3588

"The Immigration Police have launched a project in Phuket that will eventually allow hotels and homeowners all over Thailand to report required data about their guests via the Internet.
The project is intended to help combat terrorism and monitor the movements of suspicious foreigners visiting Thailand.

Following refinement of the pilot project in Phuket, the system will then be launched in Chiang Mai. It is expected to be implemented nationwide some time next year.

The underlying database will also be linked to intelligence networks overseas."

Ottawa challenges sanctuary claims / [Canada] The Globe and Mail, 5 aug 2004

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040805/CHURCH05/TPNational/TopStories

Michael Valpy
"The Immigration Department yesterday challenged claims by national Christian leaders that their churches are careful to grant sanctuary from deportation orders only to people who have been treated unjustly or have had their lives put at risk by Canada's refugee adjudication system."

Cashpoint theft secrets revealed / ic Huddersfield, 5 Aug 2004

http://ichuddersfield.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100localnews/tm_objectid=14500147&method=full&siteid=50060&headline=cashpoint-theft-secrets-revealed-name_page.html "
POLICE today spoke frankly about a high-tech crime that has happened in Huddersfield and is reaping thieves �1m a week across the UK.
The cash they are stealing after plundering bank accounts is thought to be used for organised crime.
Detectives in West Yorkshire have got their hands on the latest high-technology equipment devised by thieves to scan people's cashpoint cards and film them tapping in their Pin numbers at bank money dispensers."

Asylum seekers held in prison / BBC NEWS | Wales | 5 Aug 2004

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/3539604.stm

"The Welsh Assembly Government has written to the Home Office to ask why asylum seekers are once again being housed in Cardiff Prison. "

Aggravated Sentencing: Blakely v Washington - practical im;ications forState sentencing systems / Ver Publications, Aug 2004

http://www.vera.org/publication_pdf/242_456.pdf

Wool and Don Stemen
"The Supreme Court sent the criminal justice systems in perhaps half of the states, and the federal system, into a state of simmering unrest. Blakely v. Washington cast doubt on two decades of efforts to channel judicial discretion in sentencing by finding that the Sixth Amendment forbids a judge to increase a criminal sentence based on facts not found by a jury beyond a reasonable doubt, even when those sentences are well short of statutory maximums."

From Restorative Justice to Restorative Practices: espanding the paradigm / IIRP, 5 Aug 2004

http://www.iirp.org/library/bc04_wachtel.html

Ted Wachtel & Paul McCold
Discusses conceptual foundations of restorative practices,
including the psychology of affect, the compass of shame and fair
process. Touches on formal and informal applications of
restorative practices in multiple environments, from schools to the
workplace.

Disabled priosn officers 'sacked' BBC News, 4 Aug 2004

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3880017.stm
Geoff Adams-Spink
"Prison Officers will soon be covered by disability laws
A union claims the prison service has sacked officers ahead of new laws on disability discrimination.
The Prison Officers Association says there has been an increase in dismissals on medical grounds before legislation comes into effect.
The Home Office has denied the charge, saying it has been addressing sickness absence for a number of years. "