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Probation is in perpetual crisis. Can it protect the public from tens of thousands more criminals on the streets?

SPECIAL REPORT : There is a danger the ailing Probation Service is being ‘set up to fail’, the chief inspector of probation has warned, as the nation prepares for the biggest justice system overhaul in a generation, Amy-Clare Martin reports

The Independent UK

Probation Service performance worse since returning to public control – watchdog

The NAO also warned that the Government must fully understand the risks of work to ease workload pressures on the Probation Service.

The Independent UK

Probation Service failing to assess thousands who pose risk to women, watchdog says

Exclusive: Chief inspector of probation says it is inevitable there will be more murders and rapes without an improvement

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Restriction zones will ‘unduly influence’ release of offenders, warns PCC

Ministers are seeking to introduce restriction zones that will limit where abusers can go.

Evening Standard

Restriction zones for domestic abusers ‘a long time coming’ – survivor

Ministers will seek to introduce ‘restriction zones’ that will limit where abusers can go so survivors can go about their daily lives feeling safe.

Evening Standard

Restriction zones for domestic abusers ‘a long time coming’, survivor says

Sexual and violent offenders could be restricted to certain locations and tracked with technology

The Independent UK

Preston stabbing sparks call for probation staff safety review

Demands for metal detectors and security guards to protect officers facing increasing contact with serious offenders

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Women in UK ‘still not safe’ as mourners gather to remember murdered Zara Aleena

The 35-year-old was walking home from a night out when she was stalked, assaulted and killed by a sexual predator on 26 June 2022 in Ilford.

Evening Standard

Vigil to mark three years since Zara Aleena’s murder

The 35-year-old law graduate was killed as she walked home from a night out in Ilford, east London, in the early hours of June 26 2022

Evening Standard

Voices: I’ve spent decades inside prisons – here’s how I’ll fix them for good

COMMENT: In light of the Gauke sentencing review, prisons minister Lord Timpson explains why, to end the perma-crisis in our justice system, we must now embark on the largest expansion of jail places since the Victorian era

The Independent UK

Chemical castration of sex offenders ‘worthwhile’ exploring – review chairman

The review led by former justice secretary David Gauke recommended reforms to overhaul the prisons system.

Evening Standard

Sex offenders could face mandatory chemical castration as blueprint to ease jails crisis unveiled

Chemical castration to suppress the sexual drive of sex offenders will be rolled out to 20 prisons across England

Evening Standard

Fewer criminals to serve jail time under proposals to end prison overcrowding

Five key proposals put forward by the independent sentencing review are expected to cut the prison population by around 9,800.

Evening Standard

More community sentences in England and Wales could be ‘catastrophic’, warns watchdog

Chief inspector of probation says public at risk from greater use of prison alternatives unless service is better funded

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The Independent UK

Rape victim forced to live just minutes from abuser after probation failings

Exclusive: In letters seen by The Independent, the government promised that the perpetrator would only be released once a plan was put in place to manage him safely

Evening Standard

Probation Service launches huge recruitment drive to target dangerous London offenders

Watchdog warns there are “too few staff” with “little experience and training”

The Guardian - UK

Probation Service problems in England and Wales leaving public at risk, watchdog finds

The chief inspector’s annual report said attempts by staff to keep others safe is ‘consistently insufficient’

Evening Standard

Probation Service work to keep people safe ‘consistently insufficient’ – report

HM Inspectorate of Probation for England and Wales found staff shortages were impacting the quality of work to help offenders and protect victims.

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The Independent UK

Courses for low-risk offenders cancelled to ease Probation Service pressures

Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood said the move was to ‘confront the reality’ of the pressures on the service.

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‘Does prison achieve anything?’, family ask after son’s killer recalled

Jake Fahri, then 19, was given a life sentence in 2009 with a minimum term of 14 years for killing schoolboy Jimmy Mizen, 16.

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Convicted killer recalled to prison after reports he rapped about murdering boy

Jake Fahri, then 19, was given a life sentence in 2009 with a minimum term of 14 years for killing schoolboy Jimmy Mizen, 16.

Evening Standard

Jake Fahri recalled to prison after reports he rapped about murdering schoolboy

Jake Fahri, then 19, was given a life sentence in 2009 with a minimum term of 14 years for killing schoolboy Jimmy Mizen, 16.

Evening Standard

Missed chances to halt the four killings by serial offender Joshua Jacques in Bermondsey ‘house of horror’

Joshua Jacques was on probation when he killed Samantha Drummonds, her mother, grandmother and her grandmother’s partner

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Women and children still at risk due to Probation Service failings, says coroner

Peter Nieto has issued a report after a series of failures were highlighted in the inquests for the victims of Damien Bendall.

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Families of Bendall victims say probation failings ‘must never happen again’

The Probation Service was found by a coroner to have contributed to the deaths of Terri Harris, John Paul Bennett, Lacey Bennett and Connie Gent.

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