A man who stabbed his neighbour to death in 2004 has absconded from a mental health facility in east London, sparking a police appeal. Philip Theophilou, 54, left the facility
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Inmates are developing drug problems after being jailed because of long waiting times for mental health services, a report has found. An inspection report for HMP Wymott, near Leyland in
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A prisons watchdog is appealing to inmates at a jail where six people have died in a short space of time to dispose of any drugs. Prisons and Probation Ombudsman
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A senior member of the Scottish Prison Service has apologised if protocols were not followed in the death of an asthmatic prisoner whose father said died alone in his cell
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The Sentencing Council has introduced a new mitigating factor for pregnancy and maternity, under which judges will consider the impact of sentences on pregnant or postnatal offenders. Mitigating factors, like
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There were “serious failings” in the probation supervision of quadruple murderer Joshua Jacques, the Chief Inspector of Probation has said. Jacques, 29, was on probation when he attacked Samantha Drummonds
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A girl held in a young offenders’ institution was pinned down and forcibly stripped by a group of male prison guards, according to a watchdog. Chief Inspector of Prisons Charlie
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An investigation has been launched into what the authorities knew about the large-scale abuse of young detainees which spanned decades at a detention centre. The Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO)
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The “most distressed” prisoners serving long-abolished indefinite sentences should be released on compassionate grounds and the move could help free spaces in jails which are almost full, a charity has
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A prison officer who was working at a young offenders institution before the suicide of a 16-year-old boy has described it as a “terrible tragedy” and said he felt “a
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