Police are being directed to make fewer arrests to reduce the stress on Britain’s overcrowded prisons. Forces chiefs are said to have been advised to consider scaling back non-urgent arrests and also to suspend operations that may trigger “large numbers of arrests”
Hundreds of court hearings have been postponed at the last minute after the government triggered emergency measures to tackle prison overcrowding. Operation Early Dawn will see defendants remain in police custody, rather than being transferred to magistrates’ courts for bail hearings. The
An early release prison scheme has been criticised after “high risk” offenders will be let out to free up space in jails across the UK. An examination of HMP Lewes by the chief inspector of prisons highlighted problems with the scheme, including
The former prisons minister lashed out after it was revealed the early release scheme will be extended from 35 days to 70 days. She said ministers should be looking to find emergency accommodation to house inmates “at all costs”. Ms Widdecombe said
Ann Widdecombe has warned that releasing offenders up to 70 days early to ease overcrowding is an “incentive to crime”. The former prisons minister lashed out after it was revealed the early release scheme will be extended from 35 days to 70
One of Britain’s most notorious killers is now back on the streets, 25 years after she was jailed for torturing a grandmother to death. Sarah Davey murdered 71-year-old Lily Lilley when she was just 14 after she and a pal beat her
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The beleaguered federal Bureau of Prisons said Monday it will close a women’s prison in California known as the “rape club” despite attempts to reform the troubled facility after an Associated Press investigation exposed rampant staff-on-inmate sexual abuse.
SAN SALVADOR (AP) — At least 241 people have died in El Salvador prisons since the start of President Nayib Bukele’s “war on gangs” two years ago, according to the organization Humanitarian Legal Relief. Ingrid Escobar, director of the rights organization, said
Overseas criminals could be booted out of the country rather than prosecuted, Justice Secretary Alex Chalk has said, in accordance with bold new plans to create more space in Britain’s overcrowded jails. Mr Chalk is proposing to give foreign offenders “conditional cautions”
Kelvin MacKenzie, a former newspaper editor and conservative columnist, laid into the latest revelations in the Post Office scandal. Taking to X, formerly known as Twitter, Mr MacKenzie said that Britain would “have to build more prisons to house all the Fujitsu