Alan Mitchell, the first doctor to be elected president of European Committee for Prevention Torture, emphasises impact increased restrictions in prisons during pandemic, including cells being locked prolonged periods.1 In UK, confinement alone or with a cellmate has extended 22-24 hours each day.2 A recent joint report from charities Medical Justice and Bail Immigration Detainees describes ef...

The commercial bail bond industry is one of the most profitable as-pects America’s highly marketized criminal justice system that increasinglyshaped by neoliberal structures and ideologies. Drawing on a specialised corpusof “Home” “About Us” pages from websites, this paper firstempirical linguistic examination bonds discourse grounded inits legal context. Using corpus-assisted critical analysis...