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Every child caught carrying a knife in England and Wales will be given a mandatory targeted plan to stop them reoffending and protect the public.
HMP Northumberland will gain four new houseblocks, boosting its capacity by 240 places, in the latest Government step to make streets safer.
The prison system would have collapsed entirely by summer if not for the Government’s decisive action to keep the public safe, new analysis has revealed.
Author Lee Child announced as first ever Prison Reading Laureate.
New laws will end automatic release for badly behaved offenders and strengthen community punishment.
Offenders with mental health and addiction issues will be jointly monitored by probation and NHS experts to address the root causes of reoffending.
More offenders than ever before will be forced to stay sober this festive season as part of the Government’s Plan for Change to cut alcohol-fuelled crime.
Britain’s biggest businesses have joined the Government’s hiring drive to get prison leavers into work in effort to cut crime as part of the Plan for Change.
A new specialist panel of experts to boost legal services exports has been announced today (29 September) by the Deputy Prime Minister, David Lammy.
Thousands of criminals could be kept under additional surveillance by new technology to enhance how the Probation Service monitors offenders and cuts crime.
A Devon jail is set to almost double in size as the Government ploughs ahead with the largest prison building programme since the Victoria era.
Reoffending by burglars, robbers and thieves has been cut by 20 percent thanks to the tracking of their movements with tags, a new report has found.
Communities blighted by prolific offenders will be better protected as part of an expansion of revolutionary new courts aimed at cutting less serious crime.
Thousands of criminals could soon be managed by revolutionary new technology to enhance how the justice system monitors offenders and cuts reoffending.
Top tech experts are meeting the Justice Secretary as part of a Government drive to use AI and technology to transform the justice system and cut crime.
Reports of bullying and harassment are “a wake-up call and an opportunity to change”, Lord Timpson said today (6 May), after a review recommended wholesale change to how HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) deals with com…
Frontline officers and young people in custody will be better protected under plans to equip specially selected and trained staff with synthetic pepper spray, the Government has announced today (24 April).
The first prisoners have been locked up at a new jail that will create nearly 1,500 prison places, helping to cut crime and make streets safer today as part of the Government’s Plan for Change (23 April).
“Public safety must never be put at risk again by the failure to have enough prison places”, Lord Chancellor Shabana Mahmood said as she opened a new nearly 1,500-place prison in Yorkshire.
Vulnerable girls sentenced to youth custody will no longer be placed in Young Offender Institutions (YOIs)
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