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Those refusing military service on religious or other grounds will be required to work in a jail or other correctional facility for three years. Previously, they would have been jailed for 18 months.

The Italian Parliament has decided to convert into law a security decree that imposes more severe penalties on boats and people conducting search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean.

Some children’s homes are calling the police repeatedly over matters that would never involve the police if they happened in a family home, says the Howard League.

Four children and young people who were criminalised while living in residential care tell their stories in a new briefing published by the Howard League for Penal Reform.