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The range of prison sentences a court can give - including suspended, fixed-term, indeterminate and life sentences.
If you’re sent to prison for 2 or more crimes, you’ll usually get a…
A suspended prison sentence is served in the community instead of in…
A determinate prison sentence is for a fixed length of time. It includes a…
An indeterminate prison sentence does not have a fixed length of time.…
If you’re found guilty of murder, a court must give you a life sentence. A…
If you’re under 18 you’ll be treated differently to adults by a court. You…
The penalties if you are caught taking or dealing drugs - drug classification, fines and prison sentences
Responsibilities include: prisons probation rehabilitation youth justice sentencing
Latest FCDO travel advice for Turkey including on entry requirements, safety and security and local laws and customs.
Probation is when you serve a court sentence in the community, and can include unpaid work or being supervised after coming out of prison
The manager of a waste transfer station has been given a 12 month suspended prison sentence for running an illegal waste site at Torpoint, Cornwall.
The home of HM Prison and Probation Service on GOV.UK. We carry out sentences given by the courts, in custody and the community, and rehabilitate people in our care through education and employment.
The home of HM Prison Service on GOV.UK. We keep those sentenced to prison in custody, helping them lead law-abiding and useful lives, both while they are in prison and after they are released.
How and when to report changes that affect your Child Benefit payments, such as earnings going above £60,000. How to update a change of address or bank details.
The Parole Board decides whether prisoners who are serving certain types of sentences can be released.
Surveying Prisoner Crime Reduction (SPCR), a longitudinal cohort study of adult prisoners sentenced to between one month and four years in England and Wales in 2005 and 2006.
Rules and guidance for HMPPS staff on the Power to Detain Dangerous Prisoners Serving a Standard Determinate Sentence.
This document contains the following information: Treaty between the UK and Vietnam on the transfer of sentenced prisoners: Hanoi, 12 September 2008.
FCDO travel advice for Spain. Includes safety and security, insurance, entry requirements and legal differences.
More victims will soon be able to ask for an offender’s sentence to be increased if they think the punishment is too lenient.
These official statistics examine how self-reported ethnicity is associated with the odds of being sentenced to prison at the Crown Court, 2015
Under plans confirmed by ministers today (17 September 2019), the Unduly Lenient Sentence scheme will be extended to 14 new offences.
This document contains the following information: Agreement between the UK and Saudi Arabia on the transfer of sentenced prisoners: Riyadh, 2 January 2012.
Guidance for calculating the release dates of determinate sentences imposed by the courts.
FCDO travel advice for Egypt. Includes safety and security, insurance, entry requirements and legal differences.
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