Almost lost amid the avalanche of publicity which accompanied the release of the Birmingham Six on 14 March 1991 was an announcement from Home Secretary Kenneth Baker MP. A Royal Commission was to be ...

Almost 800 years of additional time imposed on inmates for rule breaking last year has exacerbated overcrowding, resentment and safety issues in prisons, a leading charity has warned. Report by Piers ...

‘I used to want to be part of the system but I don’t want to be part of a culture that treats somebody like this,’ Liam Allan tells Calum McCrae. When people think of Liam Allan, the ongoing ...

A report has found that police demand has increased significantly over the last decade. With crime rates rising, workloads are reported to be too high. His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and ...

A former police officer who claims to have been wrongly convicted has called an almost decade-long delay by the Criminal Cases Review Commission in making a decision to send his case back to the Court ...

The early release of prisoners, as was seen in response to the crisis in prison capacity last summer, is set to become part of the UK government’s prisons reforms. The Justice Secretary, Shabana ...

The Chief Inspector of Probation, Martin Jones CBE, has voiced concerns about the probation service having ‘too few staff, with too little experience and training, managing too many cases’ which could ...

People with criminal records obviously want to reform criminal records checks. They face considerable bias and discrimination when they apply for jobs and their offence is disclosed in DBS checks.

HMP Millsike has opened as the UK’s first ‘green prison,’ creating some 1500 prison places. The site, described by critics as a ‘megaprison,’ is equipped with solar panels and heat pump technology and ...

The Law Society has criticised plans to create ‘intermediate courts’ to address the backlog of criminal cases awaiting trial in England and Wales. The interim report on the continuing crisis in courts ...

The Crown Court, which deals with the most serious criminal cases, has reached an unprecedented number of open caseloads according to the criminal court statistics report published today. The backlog ...

The prisons inspectorate has reported that prison officers largely respond poorly to applications for basic requests, leaving prisoners feeling ‘frustrated’ and disrespected. The survey, based on ...