Last year, a report by the UN Security Council's Group of Experts said that M23 leaders "receive direct military orders" from Rwanda's chief of defence staff, Gen Charles Kayonga, "who in turn acts on instructions from the minister of defence", Gen James Kabarebe.

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The chief inspector of prisons is shortly to report on two new prisons, Altcourse near Liverpool run by Group 4, a private security firm, and Lowdham Grange near Nottingham, operated by Premier Prison Services.

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"The U.S. military ... still mainly sees the police as an auxiliary security force rather than an enforcer of the law, " the International Crisis Group concluded in a report posted Thursday on its Web site.

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"The cartels have been able to recruit tens of thousands of killers in part because poor neighborhoods have been systematically abandoned over decades and lack sufficient schools, community centers and security -- in short they lack opportunity, " the International Crisis Group said in a recent report on Mexico's cartel violence.

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