An officer is being investigated following the death of Mohamud Hassan hours after he was released from custody, the police watchdog has said. The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC)
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Drug treatment services in England will get an extra £80 million as part of the Government’s efforts to cut crime. The money is part of a £148 million package announced
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A “psycho” supermarket worker has been jailed for life, to serve a minimum of 34 years, for the “evil” murders of his wife and teenage daughter in a jealous rage
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A teenager who threw a six-year-old boy from the viewing platform of the Tate Modern has launched an appeal in a bid to be moved from jail to hospital, a
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Women are being released from prison with just £46, a bin bag for their belongings and nowhere to live, a report has claimed. Research by a group of organisations known
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Safety checks carried out by probation officers at a rehabilitation service to see if offenders pose a danger to the public are “consistently poor”, according to a watchdog. “Major improvements”
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The support given to a suicidal teenager who died in prison was “inadequate” and he should have been in hospital instead, an inquest found. Jamie Osborne took his own life
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More than 300 people have been killed by offenders being monitored by part-privatised probation firms in the last six years, according to new data. A Freedom of Information (FoI) request
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Child criminals are being held in “harmful” solitary confinement behind bars, with some let out of their cells for just 15 minutes a day, according to a report. The Chief
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The number of prisoners developing a drug problem behind bars has more than doubled in the last five years, research suggests. Almost 15% of prisoners report being drawn to illegal
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