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.

A prisoner self-harms every 7 minutes according to new data from the Ministry of Justice. It also showed an almost 25% rise ...

The Privy Council has overturned the conviction of a man of murder on the basis of fundamentally flawed DNA evidence ...

Five of these inmates serving IPP sentences were given a tariff (a minimum time of imprisonment) of less than six months. A ...

The Prisons Inspector has written to Shabana Mahmood, the Justice Secretary, demanding that HMP Winchester be placed into ...

Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, has introduced new measures to support victims of the Windrush Scandal by announcing £1.5 ...

Back in the 1970s and 1980s, there were only a limited number of ways to mount an effective challenge to a conviction, especially once the Appeal Court had rejected any approach on traditional grounds ...

The failure of a prison to heed warnings contributed to the self-inflicted death of a vulnerable autistic mother of six, ...

A man has died while being held at Brook House detention centre in West Sussex. Security firm Serco in charge of the centre has confirmed that a 26-year-old man died at the detention centre on Sunday.