The Ministry of Justice has announced is launching a review of sentencing policy to resolve the growing crisis in prisons.

Sargeant Martyn Blake, a Metropolitan Police Officer, has been acquitted for the fatal shooting of, 24-year-old, Chris Kaba.

Mary Prior KC, chair of the Criminal Bar Association, critiqued the MoJ’s plan as it would ‘only increase pressure on reduced ...

Almost lost amid the avalanche of publicity which accompanied the release of the Birmingham Six on 14 March 1991 was an announcement from Home Secretary Kenneth Baker MP. A Royal Commission was to be ...

A new analysis of Welsh prisons shows ‘drastic deterioration’ in the latest of a series of reports by the Welsh Governance ...

Frank Ospina, 39, travelled to the United Kingdom to visit his mother, and was arrested for working, in violation of his visa ...

New data has revealed a shocking increase in deaths at the hands of the police and in custody, the highest in 17 years. The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) has released statistics for ...

Charity Detention Action said the report highlighted the ‘inhumanity and harm of indefinite detention’. In 2022-23, nearly 50 ...

Frances Crook believes ‘politicians are still stuck in the 1950s’ when it comes to our criminal justice system. For 35 years, she has been at the helm of the Howard League for Penal Reform, trying to ...

A parliamentary inquiry into the controversial law around joint enterprise is to begin work next month. The Westminster Commission for Joint Enterprise is to be launched at an event in the House of ...