Police have lost tabs on nearly 500 registered sex offenders in Britain, according to a report. The missing include rapists and paedophiles, including some who disappeared more than a decade
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Staff at Maghaberry Prison have saved the lives of 11 vulnerable prisoners. Inspectors have expressed concern about the care of such inmates in the past and said plans for some
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Female prisoners – often anguished at being parted from their children – are more likely to commit acts of self-harm than their male counterparts, according to a University of Huddersfield
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The number of reported sexual offences on British railways including the Tube has doubled in five years. Data obtained under the Freedom of Information Act showed there were 2,382 such
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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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