A probation service’s work with offenders remains “unacceptably poor” with concerns raised over failures to check the risks posed to domestic abuse victims and children, inspectors said. The “greatest deficiencies”
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Concerns have been raised about poor rehabilitation work at a prison predominantly holding sex offenders amid high numbers of inmates maintaining their innocence. Most of the prisoners at HMP Isle
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Young offenders institutions are failing to curb re-offending by child criminals once they are released, according to a report. Children are being let down because the centres are “largely failing”
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More people are being sent to prison in England and Wales every year than anywhere else in western Europe, figures branded as “shameful” have suggested. The rate of people being
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The head of one of the country’s leading youth support charity’s has backed calls to keep more offending young women out of jail. The issue was raised recently by Karyn
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Rules on temporary release from prison are being eased in a drive to improve offenders’ job prospects. Ministers say the move will allow inmates more opportunities to work and train
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An order has been published to extend the presumption against short prison sentences from three months to a year, in an attempt to break the cycle of reoffending. The Scottish
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Supervision of all offenders in England and Wales is being brought back in-house after a part-privatisation was dogged by controversy and criticism. The public National Probation Service (NPS) will take
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Mentor schemes to support convicts coming out of prison have been awarded £3.4 million by the Scottish Government. The cash, which will be split between four programmes, will fund mentors
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Criminals undertaking community payback orders (CPOs) in the Scottish Borders have good relationships with staff but there are doubts about any benefits from the punishment, inspections have found. The management
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