The man who murdered his 10-year-old British-Pakistani daughter, Sara Sharif, in a high-profile case that caused public revulsion has been attacked in prison, UK officials and media said on Friday.
Britain also has a chronic shortage of probation officers to monitor criminals. The prison population of England and Wales peaked this year at 89,000, as the numbers have continued to rise by ...
Prisons minister James Timpson said Britain faced the “total breakdown of law and order” without the scheme, with the system “teetering on the edge of disaster” after being “run at 99 ...
Despite plans to create an extra 14,000 prison cells by 2031, the UK still faces the prospect of running out of space for inmates. The dire prediction has prompted justice secretary Shabana Mahmood to ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Dozens of prisons in England and Wales do not have fully working perimeter security, the head of the body ...
In the last year, four prisons in England have been issued urgent notifications from the Prisons Inspectorate, which calls on the Justice secretary to step in and remedy their declining state.