International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - summary record 3rd report (continued) [pdf, 40 KB]
...crimes. After the 1987 Amendment to the Criminal Justice Act had come into force (para. 58), the number of sentences of imprisonment for such crimes had risen steadily since 1989, reaching a peak in 1993 and declining thereafter, as indicated in the separate data that had been provided to the Committee. That Amendment had also lengthened the time spent in prison for certain violent crimes, so that offenders were released on parole only after serving two thirds rather than one half of their sent...