A seventh inmate has died in a two month period at a Welsh Prison. HMP Parc, near Bridgend, has seen a drastic increase in deaths of prisoners, with the latest due to be investigated by the prisons ...

A Guardian report has revealed that the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) is using interns to trawl for potential miscarriages of justice in their files following the exoneration of Andy ...

The prison watchdog has told MPs they are putting plans on hold to build more prison spaces for women. This decision is ...

The FDA, a trade union representing some civil service workers, is suing the government over the plans. They claim a ...

Police and prosecutors were relying on rap lyrics and videos in court to do the ‘heavily lifting’ in ‘gang’ prosecutions against young black men and boys for crimes in which many played ‘no ...

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 ...

Recent high-profile miscarriages of justice like the Post Office Scandal and Andy Malkinson, whose rape conviction was ...

An inquest has found that the death of a prisoner was an unlawful killing, laying blame on the gross negligence of prison officers, the charity INQUEST reports. This is believed to be the first time a ...

New research reveals that murderers are now getting ‘substantially increased’ minimum prison sentences fuelling a trend of sentence inflation across other serious crimes, such as manslaughter and ...

After 12 years in prison on an indeterminate IPP sentence, a father has been reunited with his 14-year-old son. Thomas White received an IPP sentence with a two-year minimum tariff in 2012 for ...