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Campaigners criticise all-White, all-female panel for prisons review
The panel helping Dame Amber Rudd review prisons in England and Wales has no former prisoners and no one from a Black or minority ethnic background, campaigners say.
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Prison deaths and self-harm fall, but violence rises in women’s jails
Ministry of Justice figures show fewer deaths, self-harm incidents and assaults across prisons in England and Wales. Assaults in women's prisons, however, have reached their highest level on record.
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Electronic tagging gaps put victims and the public at risk, inspectors warn
A joint inspection of police and probation has found weak guidance, poor records and patchy information-sharing in the use of electronic monitoring, and sets out thirty recommendations.
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HMP Leicester podcast studio sparks row between Conservatives and Reform
A £20,000 studio where men at HMP Leicester record podcasts for fellow prisoners has drawn criticism from the shadow justice secretary and a defence from the Reform police commissioner who helped fund it.
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Met Police to stop chasing short, low-risk breaches of electronic tag rules
London’s police force says officers will no longer investigate most tag breaches lasting under an hour, so they can focus on high-risk offenders such as domestic abusers.
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Early release scheme frees 1,350 prisoners, with some back in custody within days
Many of the first prisoners freed under the Sentencing Act scheme in October left without tags or homes, and one Welsh prison saw 28 per cent of its releases recalled within a week.
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Solicitors regulator agrees to look again at complaint after legal challenge
The Solicitors Regulation Authority has accepted that its enquiries into one complaint were not detailed enough, after the charity Blind Justice threatened court action.
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‘Two Strikes’ lifer still in prison more than two decades after 2003 sentence
A man jailed under the automatic life sentence rule abolished in 2005 says his indefinite detention amounts to “mental torture”, ahead of a parole hearing this month.
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Damp, mould and leaks leave 236 cells empty across 11 prisons
Figures given to Parliament show 3,669 prison cells standing vacant, for reasons ranging from fire safety work and radon gas to arson, Legionella and bed bugs.
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Berwyn deputy governor tells councillors 18 of 64 early releases returned within a week
A deputy governor at HMP Berwyn told a Wrexham council committee that 28 per cent of men freed in the first tranche of early releases were back inside within seven days.