Chancellor Rachel Reeves pledged in her Autumn Budget to ‘begin to repair the justice system’ as she announced significant real-terms spending increases for the next two years. The Ministry of ...

Sir John Major has called the UK’s jails “a total and utter disgrace”, saying it is “completely unacceptable” that cells built in Victorian times to hold one prisoner are now holding two. The ...

There were red faces all round at the Scottish Prison Service and Scottish Police Force after a woman was mistakenly sent to a men’s prison for one night. Police said the mistake had arisen because ...