Victims

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Prisoners who refuse to attend sentencing to face loss of visits and confinement

From next year judges will be able to impose extra prison sanctions, the Government has announced. The Prison Reform Trust has questioned the evidence behind the plan.

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Sentencing Act early releases begin as probation and victims’ groups raise concerns

Some prisoners began leaving custody one-third of the way through their sentences on 1 October, with about 4,500 due out early over the next nine months.

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Restorative justice groups urge rethink of rules that exclude whole categories of crime

Practitioners have written to Lord Timpson asking the Ministry of Justice to drop a “presumption of unsuitability” that they say shuts out victims as well as people who caused harm.