MYSTERIOUS: 4 - What They Never Told You

Shoplifters to benefit most from ending short jail terms in England and Wales

More than 9,000 people given six to 12 months for shoplifting in past two years would now be made to do community service

The Guardian - UK · Dec 26, 2023

Chief prisons inspector: Overcrowding is a ticking time bomb

Exclusive: Last-ditch government plans to free up cells not enough to prevent overcrowding problem from ‘blowing up’, prisons watchdog warns

The Independent UK · Dec 25, 2023

Ex-prisoner’s cry for help over indefinite jail term before his death

In a heartbreaking email to the justice secretary, Matthew Price told of the ‘psychological torture’ of living under an indeterminate sentence

The Independent UK · Dec 22, 2023

Government rejects ‘Hillsborough law’ central to campaign by victims’ families

Ministers reject families’ call for legally enforceable ‘duty of candour’ but signs charter to commit to transparency after public tragedies

The Guardian - UK · Dec 6, 2023

Taxpayers foot £300k energy bill for MPs’ second homes

Exclusive: MPs ‘living in a different world’, say campaigners as spike in prices is covered by public purse

The Independent UK · Dec 3, 2023

Foreign prisoners could serve shorter sentences than Britons in bid to ease overcrowding crisis

The Independent has repeatedly highlighted the overcrowding crisis facing Britain’s prisons, with inmates crammed into cells for up to 23 hours a day and ministers considering freeing prisoners early to make space

The Independent UK · Dec 2, 2023

Plan to send inmates abroad shows prison system ‘completely broken’ by Tory failures, union chief warns

Prisons yet to recover from austerity ‘race to the bottom’, with nine Tory justice secretaries achieving ‘nothing but decline’, warns Andrea Albutt

The Independent UK · Nov 30, 2023

Government blasted for refusing to resentence inmates trapped in jail with no hope of release

‘Unfinished business’: Justice committee chair Bob Neill welcomes licence reforms but calls for government to resentence IPP prisoners

The Independent UK · Nov 28, 2023

Over 1,800 offenders to have indefinite jail sentences terminated, says MoJ

Imprisonment for public protection sentences will now have an end date under changes in England and Wales

The Guardian - UK · Nov 28, 2023

Government to discuss tougher sentences for domestic and knife killers

‘For some evil people, murder is the brutal final act of a controlling and coercive relationship with their partner,’ said a government minister

The Independent UK · Nov 27, 2023