Charity Detention Action said the report highlighted the ‘inhumanity and harm of indefinite detention’. In 2022-23, nearly 50 ...

New data has revealed a shocking increase in deaths at the hands of the police and in custody, the highest in 17 years.

A parliamentary inquiry into the controversial law around joint enterprise is to begin work next month. The Westminster ...

An investigation by the Prison and Probation Ombudsman was ‘very concerned’ that staff at HMP Wandsworth had no ‘ meaningful interaction ’ with a prisoner prior to his self-inflicted death in 2021.

An undercover police officer has admitted that he spied on Keir Starmer when he was a barrister advising two environmental campaigners as they took on McDonalds in what became the longest civil trial ...

A new report by the charity StopWatch has found that stop and search powers fail to reduce violence, but drag racialised groups into the criminal justice system. According to the report, civil orders ...

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 ...

HMP Manchester has become the latest prison to be put special measures after an inspection found ‘squalid’, rodent-infested cells, wings awash with illegal drugs, and some of the highest rates of ...

There were a total of 304 deaths of people in prison during this period, 92 of which were self-inflicted. Every four days ...