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

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

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

The independent review says successive governments made "knee jerk" decisions to issue longer prison sentences.

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

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

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

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

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

New figures have revealed that nearly half of rape and sexual assault victims in Norfolk are teenagers and children, amid concerns that abuse ...