Crime

Study shows crime rates have remained stagnant or decreased in areas where prisoners were released and arrest rates reduced.

Planned government changes to sentencing will add to pressures on prisons, without reducing crime or improving public confidence, a new Prison Reform Trust report warns.

The Children's Society says the decline in happiness is a "national scandal" and exposes huge failings for the country’s most vulnerable children.

A medical charity says the policy that forces people seeking asylum in the US to wait out legal proceedings in violent areas of Mexico puts them in extreme danger.