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Doc Society Announces Fund for Films ‘In Service of Better Futures,’ Zohran Mamdani Project Among First Supported Features (EXCLUSIVE). Doc Society, the London-headquartered non-profit organization that funds and supports independent documentary filmmakers, has announced the launch of a new fund. The Doc Society Love & Rockets Fund is an international fund dedicated to cinematic non-fiction features it says are “in service of better futures.” The fund will award non-recoupable grants of up to $150,000, […].

Prisoners thank Andy Burnham as they leave jail in first wave of early releases. Seven hundred offenders from dozens of prisons in England and Wales expected to be freed on Thursday Enver Solomon: Releasing prisoners won’t solve the crisis in English and Welsh jails. Here’s what will UK politics live – latest updates Prisoners have thanked Andy Burnham as they celebrated walking free from jail early. The first wave of releases began on Thursday, with 700 offenders expected to be freed across England and Wales under the government’s plan to ease prison overcrowding. Continue reading...

Releasing prisoners won’t solve the crisis in English and Welsh jails. Here’s what will | Enver Solomon. Ministers need to level with the public about what current prison sentences look like – who needs to be locked up and for how long Enver Solomon is chief executive of Nacro, the criminal justice charity ‘Thank you Andy Burnham’: prisoners react as they begin to leave under early release scheme Continue reading...