A damning new report found governments focused too heavily on handing out tough sentences rather than looking for ways of ...

A mother-of-three who was subjected to four years of domestic violence says she has been let down by the criminal justice ...

Former Conservative Justice Secretary David Gauke, who is in April widely expected to call for more community sentences, said ...

As an interim report by former justice secretary David Gauke lays bare how a move to long sentencing has contributed to a ...

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An official review of sentencing policy said a 'tough on crime narrative' adopted by successive governments had left the ...

The Independent Sentencing Review said longer jail terms have been a ‘knee jerk’ policy response which has led to an ...

David Gauke says ‘penal populism’ has spurred a 30-year political competition to impose ever-longer jail terms ...

Sentencing review chief David Gauke criticises politicians for increasing tariffs without considering wider impact on justice ...

A quarter of recently convicted young criminals in Bedfordshire reoffended within a year, latest figures show.

The UK’s prison overcrowding crisis has been fuelled by politicians' attempts to seem “tough on crime”, a major government ...

Successive governments trying to look tough on crime have driven a rising prison population that's overwhelmed the system, ...