Asylum seekers who are fleeing sexual abuse are entirely dependent on the Home Office for support, accommodation and recovery ...

These new provisions were introduced by the Victims and Prisoners Act 2024 and have come into force on 1st November, ...

Post Office campaigner Sir Alan Bates yesterday told the BBC he had received no response despite writing to the Prime ...

Safety has collapsed at a Lancashire prison where prisoners are able to bring in drugs via drones through smashed windows.

The Privy Council has overturned the conviction of a man of murder on the basis of fundamentally flawed DNA evidence purporting to indicate a ‘one in 46 million’ chances of there not being a match ...

A prisoner self-harms every 7 minutes according to new data from the Ministry of Justice. It also showed an almost 25% rise in the number of assaults in prisons. The rate of self-harm is more than ...

There are concerns about the future of the miscarriage of justice watchdog in New Zealand only four years after it was set up following the model of our troubled Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC ...

The head of the probation watchdog has said people should not be sent back to prison for minor probation infringements, citing this as a reason for the current prison overcrowding crisis. In an ...

Almost lost amid the avalanche of publicity which accompanied the release of the Birmingham Six on 14 March 1991 was an announcement from Home Secretary Kenneth Baker MP. A Royal Commission was to be ...