Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood said the move was to ‘confront the reality’ of the pressures on the service.

Sex offenders and domestic abusers are among 13,000 convicted criminals whose rehabilitation courses are being cancelled by ...

Shortages of prison staff, mental health problems among inmates, and overcrowding, fuelled by court delays, have pushed the prison system to the brink. Now frontline workers from prison officers to ...

Prisoners are being sent back to jail by the probation service because it's the easiest thing to do, rather than solely for public protection, the chief inspector of probation has told Sky News.

Migrants arriving illegally in the UK in small boats or stowed away in lorries will be refused British citizenship, new Home ...

A Belfast man who sent sexually explicit photographs of himself to a neighbour as part of a social media harassment campaign ...

A new support hub has opened in Durham to help ex-prisoners rebuild their lives and reintegrate into the community. Part of a wider regional network, similar hubs are already operating in Darlington, ...

N ew research published last month in the Probation Journal – A fork in the road: Probation unification in England and Wales ...

For the first time, it puts controlling or coercive behaviour on a par with other domestic abuse offences, including threats ...