Domestic abusers could be banned from drinking alcohol and electronically tagged under a Government crackdown. New civil orders will expand the potential restrictions courts and police can impose on criminals
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A “small army of people” are leaving prison without any form of employment or accommodation, a former minister has warned. The latest Government figures reveal that almost a third of
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A “vulnerable” 18-year-old man who killed himself in a prison cell could have been saved if staff had promptly responded to an emergency alarm, a report has found. Lithuanian national
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Probation services responsible for supervising thousands of offenders are failing to meet them often enough, a report has warned. Enforcement of non-custodial sentences by private community rehabilitation companies (CRCs) was
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Jurors have criticised “appalling systematic failures” at a prison as they cleared an officer over the death of a suicidal inmate. Joseph Travers, 55, was accused of breaching his duty
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A new electronic monitoring scheme for supervising offenders has been condemned by MPs as a “catastrophic” waste of taxpayers’ money. In a scathing critique, the Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC)
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The prisons watchdog has raised the alarm over safety at a women’s jail for the first time in years. In a rare finding, HM Inspectorate of Prisons (HMIP) rated the
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Violence and self-harm have increased at a youth jail, a watchdog report has warned. It found one in four boys felt unsafe at Cookham Wood young offender institution (YOI) near
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Thousands of offenders living in the community are managed by a brief phone call every few weeks, a watchdog report has revealed. In some cases convicts are only met once
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Ministers have been urged to go back to the drawing board after a damning report on the Government’s shake-up of the probation service. The Tory administration faced a barrage of
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