Two former directors of Serco have been charged with fraud and false accounting over an electronic tagging contract. Nicholas Woods, ex-finance director of Serco Home Affairs, and Simon Marshall, former
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The probation service has apologised for “failings” which enabled “evil” sex attacker Joseph McCann to carry out a series of attacks on women and children. McCann, 34, a convicted burglar
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The Home Office has lost a legal bid to overturn a court ruling which found it had detained asylum seekers unlawfully. The judgment may pave the way for a wave
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Calls to tackle the “growing mental health crisis” have been made as cases handled by police officers rose more than a quarter in the last four years. The head of
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A High Court judge might have to decide whether doctors can force-feed an autistic prisoner being held on remand who is accused of killing a relative. Mrs Justice Lieven has
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A public inquiry has been announced into the death of a man in police custody. Scotland’s Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf told MSPs it would look into the “circumstances leading up
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Three quarters of asylum seekers in the UK waited more than six months for an initial decision on their case in the last quarter of 2018, a new report shows.
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A public inquiry is to be held into allegations of abuse at a scandal-hit immigration detention centre. The investigation will have legal powers to compel witnesses to give evidence about
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Conditions in youth jails are worse than they were a decade ago despite falling numbers of offenders behind bars, researchers have claimed. The number of children in custody fell by
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Hundreds of prisoners are leaving jail homeless, inspection reports have warned. Concerns were raised about the situation at HMP Cardiff, with inspectors citing a “well-established link” between homelessness and the
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