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MoJ readies extra prison places in case summer riots happen again

Exclusive: Justice minister James Timpson says increased cell capacity means emergency early release schemes won’t be needed

The Guardian - UK · Mar 9, 2025

Prison system crisis due to overreliance on long sentences, says Gauke review

Successive governments’ ‘penal populism’ has driven England and Wales justice system to brink of collapse, report finds

The Guardian - UK · Feb 18, 2025

Coercive control to be put on par with other types of domestic abuse in England and Wales

Police and probation services will be legally required to share with one another information that suggests offenders are risk to others

The Guardian - UK · Feb 3, 2025

‘90 people have taken their own lives already. How many more do they want?’ The Labour peer taking on the scandal of ‘99-year’ sentences

Indeterminate sentences were scrapped in 2012 – but thousands of prisoners are still serving them, often for petty crimes, with no hope of release. Could there now be hope of resentencing?

The Guardian - UK · Dec 25, 2024

Inmates bitten by rats and venomous spiders as state of prisons laid bare in report

Appalling conditions caused by years of underfunding, mismanagement and neglect, inspector warns

The Independent UK · Nov 27, 2024

Labour mulls scheme to alert rape and stalking victims if perpetrator is nearby

James Timpson, the prisons minister, will investigate scheme in Spain that gives option of real-time alert

The Guardian - UK · Nov 19, 2024

Peers say not reforming IPP sentences could cause another Post Office scandal

Ministers told they risk more miscarriages of justice by not backing bill to replace indefinite jail terms with fixed ones

The Guardian - UK · Nov 15, 2024

Prisoners held on indefinite terms should have sentences reviewed, peers told

Lord Tony Woodley says people still being held on abolished Imprisonment for Public Protection sentences are subjected to miscarriages of justice.

Evening Standard · Nov 15, 2024

Prison self-harm at record high as deaths, assaults and staff attacks surge in overcrowding crisis

A prisoner self-harmed once every seven minutes and was assaulted once every 18 minutes in the last year, figures reveal

The Independent UK · Oct 31, 2024

In the Netherlands, we’re closing our emptying prisons. What can other countries learn from how we did it?

The Dutch prison population has fallen by more than 40% – and awareness of the harms of harsh sentencing could explain why, says Dutch writer and journalist Renate van der Zee

The Guardian - UK · Oct 14, 2024