The government is failing to provide and maintain safe, secure and decent prisons and its flagship initiatives to address this have not delivered, according to a new National Audit Office report
Changes to the probation system have locked offenders in “an expensive merry-go-round” and have led to “no tangible reduction to reoffending”, according to a new report.
In recent days the media has positively revelled in Chris Grayling’s reputation for incompetence, and almost every report focused on what his failures have cost in financial terms.
A Cairo criminal court has ordered the release of Amal Fathy, a woman human rights defender who was given a two-year sentence in September for posting a video online in which she criticised the Egyptian authorities for failing to tackle sexual harassment.
In Nacro’s experience, being released on a Friday can make an already difficult day almost impossible and increase the possibility of people reoffending.
The Military Corrective Training Centre in Colchester, the only secure training centre for the armed services, has had very good inspections in recent years and 2017 proved no exception, according to HM Chief Inspector of Prison, Peter Clarke.
The cost of private probation supervision in the US disproportionately harms the poor, often criminalising a person’s inability to pay their probation fees and court costs, Human Rights Watch says in a new report.
Criminal justice across the UK has got smaller but tougher over recent years, according to a new briefing from the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies.