A Blanket Policy of Mass Imprisonment: UK Cops Planned to Hold All Riot Suspects in Custody
Submitted on August 23, 2011
By Polly Curtis - The Guardian
Senior [London] police officers devised a policy of holding all people arrested on riot-related offences in custody and recommending that the courts also refuse bail after they were charged, according to a leaked "prisoner processing strategy"..."The right to bail is a long-standing and essential part of our criminal justice system...[I]t seems that the Metropolitan police took a strategic decision to apply a blanket ban and deny everyone bail, no matter what their circumstances...[T]his policy is unlawful..."
