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 ...

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 ...

Murder is to intentionally take another’s life. For such a heinous crime there must be an equally severe punishment. Something to hurt the perpetrator, deter others and protect society from further ...

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

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 ...