A report from an unannounced inspection of Durham Prison in January 2025 has highlighted serious concerns over prisoner welfare including a 60% rise in prisoner-on-prisoner assaults. The Chief ...
UN Special Rapporteur Dr. Alice Jill Edwards has condemned the indefinite detention of prisoners under the UK Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) scheme, reporting the scheme as ‘cruel, inhumane ...
The Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) has referred the 1977 conviction of Errol Campbell to the Court of Appeal, marking the twelfth case tied to discredited British Transport Police officer DS ...
51 people died in Home Office accommodation last year, a Guardian freedom of information request has revealed. This is a substantial increase from 11 deaths in 2023. The Home Office initially claimed ...
Women’s prisons have ‘astonishing gaps in basic decency’ and an ‘overreliance’ on physical force according to new research which examined conditions in four jails. Self-harm among women in prison has ...
An international panel of neonatologists and medical experts reviewing the deaths of babies at the Countess of Chester Hospital has found no evidence of murder by the former nurse Lucy Letby – instead ...
An event marking the 50th anniversary of the series of landmark wrongful convictions known as the ‘Irish cases’ – the Birmingham Six, Guildford Four and Maguire Seven – will take place at the House of ...
Andrew Malkinson is to receive an initial ‘six-figure’ compensation payout from the government after suffering one of the worst miscarriages of justice in modern times, becoming one of a tiny handful ...
A recent unannounced inspection of HMP/YOI Standford Hill by the prisons watchdog raised concerns about hygiene, healthcare, and prisoner welfare but praised the prison for safety, quality of life, ...
The average workload of investigators at the troubled miscarriage of justice watchdog has more than doubled since 2010 and, in at least one case, was closer to four times the average, according to new ...
The intelligence agency MI5 lied to three courts in order to protect an undercover agent, a neo-Nazi who attacked his girlfriend with a machete. The BBC has revealed that the agency lied in court to ...
An inquest into the deaths of three inmates at HMP Lowdham Grange in Nottinghamshire has exposed serious failings in prison management, raising concerns about the safety of vulnerable prisoners. The ...
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