More than 200 suspected members of county lines drugs gangs have been arrested in a national crackdown. There are thought to be around 1,500 of the networks in operation in
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A sharp jump in violent and sexual offences has fuelled a 17% increase in crimes recorded on Britain’s railways, official figures show. Some 61,159 crimes were reported by British Transport
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A shortage of nursing staff is hampering the delivery of a comprehensive mental health service at a Scottish prison, it has been found. Inspectors said much has been done to
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Prisoners are merely being “warehoused” at a jail where they are kept in squalid conditions for up to 23 hours a day, a watchdog report has warned. Under a restricted
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Recorded sexual crime was up 13% last year, following new legislation outlawing acts such as circulating intimate photographs. Sexual crimes increased from 11,092 in 2016/17 to 12,487 in 2017/18 –
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Three in four cases of violence against women and girls taken on by prosecutors end in conviction, the highest rate since comparable records began, new figures for England and Wales
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The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has denied changing its approach to rape prosecutions to improve conviction rates. The Guardian newspaper reported that advice to take a proportion of “weak cases
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Serious failings in the management of domestic abusers living in the community are laid bare in a major new report. Inspectors found contact with offenders was too infrequent, leaving many
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A prisoner who had been threatened by other inmates and was found hanging in his cell died by misadventure, an inquest jury has concluded. Matthew Gray, 31, was found by
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Prosecutors have described the low levels of convictions against young men who are tried for rape as “a challenge for the entire criminal justice system” after figures showed that a
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