Strengthening the prosecution's hand, however, is a long way from imprisoning people who have not been tried.
The Economist will no doubt disapprove, as it keeps imprisoning us in brackets with the patronising (or her).
James Martin and Veronica Ryan, from Belfast, were both convicted of falsely imprisoning alleged IRA informer, Joe Fenton, before he was killed in 1989.
Inexplicably, they point to falling crime rates, not as evidence that keeping criminals locked away in jail prevents crime, but as proof that imprisoning offenders is unnecessary.
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British and Irish judges may yet balk, as they have in the past, at imprisoning suspects for long periods without evidence, whatever Mr Blair's and Mr Ahern's new laws say.
Recently, a special group of independent legal experts with the United Nations declared that Nicaragua was violating international law (PDF) by imprisoning Puracal and that he should be immediately released.
This established for the first time the presumption of innocence and also limited the practice of imprisoning unconvicted defendants, which led to the release from jail of thousands of prisoners on remand.
And, you know, when he says it's a prison, what may be just as imprisoning, actually, is to tell somebody - in a way which is not reasonable - you should go back and try to fix things.
Imprisoning them was like trying to use a bailing bucket to drain the ocean: for each pirate captured by the authorities, there were dozens of desperate young men on shore ready to rush in and fill the void.
France is now waiting to hear whether Mr Qaddafi will honour his earlier undertaking to abide by the verdict of the court, presumably by imprisoning the men in Libya and paying compensation to the families of the 170 victims.
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