Black knife offenders in London twice as likely to be ankle tagged after release from prison
Figures shared with ITV News show, black knife offenders in London are twice as likely to be tagged compared to white people. | ITV News London ...
Political drive to look ‘tough on crime’ behind prison capacity crisis – report
The Independent Sentencing Review said longer jail terms have been a ‘knee jerk’ policy response which has led to an ...
UK’s prison overcrowding crisis fuelled by ‘tough on crime’ talk, Labour’s new tsar finds
The UK’s prison overcrowding crisis has been fuelled by politicians' attempts to seem “tough on crime”, a major government ...
Politicians are guilty of turning our prisons into pressure cookers
As an interim report by former justice secretary David Gauke lays bare how a move to long sentencing has contributed to a ...
'Tough on crime' policies behind prison crisis, says review
The independent review says successive governments made "knee jerk" decisions to issue longer prison sentences.
Prisons crisis: Posturing 'tough on crime' politicians to blame for justice system collapse
Posturing 'tough on crime' politicians to blame for justice system collapse - David Gauke’s major review of criminal ...
‘Tough on crime’ policies blamed for prison overcrowding by Labour’s sentencing tsar
David Gauke says ‘penal populism’ has spurred a 30-year political competition to impose ever-longer jail terms ...