Bail Amendment News Today

Lambasting the Government for its “intellectual laziness”, United National Congress (UNC) Senator Jayanti Lutchmedial said yesterday restrictions on bail were creating single-mother households.Speaking in the Senate during the budget debate

Australian Greens The Victorian Greens will introduce a bill to Parliament next week that would reduce the number of First Nations people held in custody in Victoria. The Bail Amendment (Reducing Pre-trial Imprisonment of Women, Aboriginal, and Vulnerable Persons) Bill 2020 would simplify the state’s strict bail laws, creating a system that grants offenders bail unless they pose an unacceptable risk to the community. In 2017 and 2018 the Andrews Government tightened our bail laws significantl...

Minister Young visits IATF and GEB officers on Christmas Day Port of Spain: Today, December 25, 2020 Minister of National Security, the Honourable Stuart R. Young M.P. met with officers of the Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force and the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service, who are attached to the Inter-Agency Task Force and the Guard and Emergency Branch to relay his best wishes for the Christmas season and for the upcoming new year. The visit took place at the Headquarters of the Inter-Agency...

He said that, despite not yet being sentenced, many remand prisoners were houses in high security units and subject to a basic yard-to-cell regime, meaning that they spend upwards of 20 hours per day in their cell. He also noted many prison sites had facilities that were “no longer fit-for-purpose,” but continued to be used due to “the high prison population”. DAVID WHITE/STUFF Director of Just Speak, Tania Sawicki Mead said the remand population had “stratospherically grown” i...