The days of mates in the 'underworld', piss-ups with coppers and a diet of rape, murder and robbery are over for crime reporters, writes Sky News's Martin Brunt
The £2bn criminal justice IT programme promises to transform the process of dealing with criminals by 2008. Michael Cross meets the man in charge of enabling joined-up justice.
Erwin James was serving a life sentence when the Guardian asked him to write regular dispatches from jail about his experiences there. He was released on parole last summer. Here, in his final column for G2, he reflects on the lessons that prison - and freedom - have taught him.
It's a shame that Nick Davies's concluding article in his five-part special investigation did not present a more up-to-date picture of progress being made in managing cases, and of the impact of prosecutors advising the police on appropriate charges.
The teenage leader of a gang of youths which caused havoc and misery in Leeds has been handed a 10-year anti-social behaviour order (Asbo) banning him from the city centre.
In theory, there are new bridges feeding offenders into the treatment regime - the idea of using the criminal justice system as an outreach network is one of the core ideas of the drugs strategy.
Faster and fairer justice
It's a shame that Nick Davies's concluding article in his five-part special investigation did not present a more up-to-date picture of progress being made in managing cases, and of the impact of prosecutors advising the police on appropriate charges.