Wormwood Scrubs is ‘badly affected by the ingress of drugs’ and a ‘lack of oversight of the use of force’ according to the ...

The new head of the miscarriages of justice watchdog has said the body is ‘not there to tick a box’ but that a change of ...

Justin Plummer spent more than 27 years protesting his innocence in prison for a savage murder. On July 30, it took less than ...

Freeman, who is in his 80s and ill with prostate cancer, applied to the CCRC six times, hoping the body would send his case back to the courts. His previous five applications, the first of which was ...

New legislation on prison sentencing aims to tackle prison capacity crisis but will not curb the inflation of sentence lengths which has occurred under successive governments. The bill has been ...

The miscarriage of justice watchdog has for the first time invoked a ‘safety valve’ power to send a case back to the court without having to rely on new evidence. Benjamin Field’s murder conviction ...

‘Awful’ conditions persist in Feltham Young Offenders Institute with some boys only being allowed less than an hour out of ...

An independent review into prison capacity, released last month, found the prison system was ‘in crisis’ between autumn 2023 ...