Digest
| DOI | 10.1177/026455058102800421 |
| Published date | 01 September 1981 |
| Date | 01 September 1981 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
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DIGEST
Richard
Campbell
In
March
1980
Richard
Campbell
died
whilst
in
custody
at
Ashford
Remand
Centre.
’The
Death
of
Richard
Campbell,
the
report
of
the
public
enquiry
of
November
1980
con-
vened
by
the
Battersea
and
Wandsworth
Trades
Council’,
outlines
the
events
pre-
ceding
his
death
and
raises
general
issues
concerning
the
experience
of
young
blacks
-&dquo;detrained
in
custody.
This
strongly
worded
and
disquieting
report
is
available
at
50p
from
the
friends
and
family
of
Richard
Cam-
pbell-135a
Lavender
Hill,
London,
SW11.
Still
too
many
Prisoners
On
25th
June,
1980,
Parliamentary
all
Party
Penal
Affairs
Group
published
report
&dquo;Too
Many
Prisoners&dquo;
which
contains
48
recom-
mendations
designed
to
reduce
prison
pop-
ulation
without
endangering
public.
Assess-
ing
the
government’s
response
to
the
report
the
group
now
call
for
firm
legislative
action
to
reduce
the
prison
population.
Source:
’Still
Too
Many
Prisoners:
An
assessment
of
the
government’s
response
to
the
report
&dquo;Too
Many
Prisoners&dquo;
since
June,
1980,’
from
Paul
Cavadino,
NACRO,
169
Clapham
Road,
SW9.
Running
a
Minibus
’Starting
up:
How
to
run
a
community
minibus’
is
the
.tiile
of
a
comprehensive
guide
to
organising,
running
and
making
full
and
efhcient
use
of
a
minibus.
60p
from
Community
Transport,
31
Poland
Street,
Ancoats,
Manchester.
Tel.
061
205
1473.
Dealing
with
Addiction
Report
on
the
Divisional
Workshop
on
Add-
ictions
Feb.,
1980,
from
ILPAS,
73
Great
Peter
Street,
SWI.
Summarises
papers and
discussions
of
a
two
day
conference
on
work-
ing
with
drug
and
alcohol
abusers.
Life
Imprisonment
In
January
1957,
shortly
before
the
Homi-
cide
Act
was
passed
there
were
140
persons
serving
life
imprisonment
for
murder.
At
the
end
of
October
1980
the
number
of
lifers
was
around
1600.
The
management,
review
and
special
difficulties
associated
with
lifers
are
considered
in
the
Prison
Service
Journal,
No
42
New
Series
April
1981.
Fuel
Debts
and
Disconnections
Poor
people
are
finding
it
harder
to
keep
pace
with
the
increasing
cost
of
electricity
and
the
number
of
people
being
disconnected
is
rising
fast.
Code
of
practice
has
proved
to
be
ineffective;
Electricity
Boards
seem
insensitive
to
the
difficulties
of
those
on
low
incomes;
the
Social
Security
system
is
in-
adequate.
Source:
’Poor
and
Powerless:
Fuel
Problems
and
Disconnections’
by
Janet
Lavant.
Poverty
Pamphlet
No
52,
August
1981,
£1
from
CPAG,
I
Macklin
St,
WC2.
Prison
Visitors
Voluntary
prision
visitors
(about
650
in
Eng-
land
and
Wales)
are
members
of
the
com-
munity
who
provide
a
befriending
and
visit-
ing
service
for
prisoners.
Most
are
members
of
the
National
Association
of
Prison
Visi-
tors.
Interested
volunteers
can
obtain
further
information
from
the
General
Secretary,
NAPV,
47
Hartington
Street,
Bedford,
Bucks.
DHSS
Fraud
Squads
Aiming
to
save
£SOm
in
1980/81
some
1500
extra
DHSS
staff
were
taken
on
to
deal
with
Social
Security
fraud.
On
examining
how
their
investigations
were
carried
out
a
study
of
DHSS
fraud
enquiry
in
the
West
Midlands
found
that
there
was
an
absence
of
clear
purpose
and
a
disregard
of
guidelines
and
rules.
Many
claimants
were
harassed
as
the
investigations
became
a
moral
crusade.
Source:
’Specialist
Claims
Control
A
Local
Experience’.
Alan
Robinson
and
Susan
Wa-
inwright
in
Poverty
No
49
August
1981,
published
by
CPAG
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