Pre-sentence reports do not bind a judge. What are pre-sentence reports? According to HM Prison & Probation Service: 'The purpose of a pre-sentence report (PSR) is to facilitate the administration ...

Rebecca Holloway, 31 was found dead at the HM Prison Low Newton ... As with all deaths in custody, the Prison and Probation Ombudsman will investigate," a prison service spokesperson said.

The HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) remains operating 'hand to mouth', while the service acknowledges it as ...

Greenwich resident Mahamood Diallo Blin, 26 was sentenced to six years and 11 months in jail on Monday, 24 February at Snaresbrook Crown Court. The Met Police has warned that smuggling drugs into ...

Prisons face ‘total gridlock’ in 2026 amid failure to increase capacity – MPs - A Westminster committee said lives are being ...

In December 2024, the National Audit Office reported that HM Prison and Probation Service no longer expects to deliver that capacity until 2031. As of September last year, only 6,500 of the places had ...

Even though the Colorado Supreme Court ruled five years ago that sentences of prison plus probation are illegal, the justices decided on Monday that judges were permitted to fix those sentences by ...

The priest emphasized that his service “was for everyone” and that “it did not matter what crime the person had committed, because we should not identify the man who is in prison with his ...

This question was at the heart of a special meeting held at the headquarters of the Israel Prison Service (IPS) in Ramla. Rabbi Yonatan Markovitch, Chief Rabbi of Kyiv and Rabbi of Ukraine's ...

A report by the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO ... A spokesperson for the Prison Service said that HMP Durham has implemented complex case meetings to discuss suitable cuffing arrangements ...

In echoes of last summer’s riots, the government is again being accused of enabling a “two-tier” justice system in the UK.