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 ...
Courses for low-risk offenders cancelled to ease Probation Service pressures
Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood said the move was to ‘confront the reality’ of the pressures on the service.
Sex offender courses cancelled as probation officers have ‘impossible’ workload
Sex offenders and domestic abusers are among 13,000 convicted criminals whose rehabilitation courses are being cancelled by ...
A 'serial shoplifter' who targeted Surrey shops while on probation has been sentenced
Michael Davis, from Hatton Gardens, Mitcham, was arrested and remanded by Surrey Police after being linked to a number of ...
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Two months probation for man who sent sexually explicit photos of himself to neighbour
A Belfast man who sent sexually explicit photographs of himself to a neighbour as part of a social media harassment campaign ...
Four in ten who took their lives in prison were denied adequate healthcare
Exclusive: The scale of prison neglect uncovered as figures show almost half of prisoners who took their own lives did get ...
Leicester drug kingpin dies in prison while serving 20-year sentence
A Leicester drug kingpin has died while serving a 20-year prison sentence. Lukasz Albert Strag, 44, died at West Heath ...
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Investigation after Bolton child rapist dies at HMP Wymott
A child rapist has died in prison, with an investigation now launched into his death. Bolton man John Trow, 71 at the time of his death, was jailed back in 2016 for a string of horrific crimes against ...
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Courses for low-risk offenders cancelled to ease Probation Service pressures
Around 13,000 offenders did not complete rehabilitation courses as part of their sentences because the Probation Service was unable to deliver them in time under an “impossible” workload ...