Britain is investing in 30,000 more electronic tags for criminals as part of a massive overhaul in sentencing law. The huge ...

Convicts sentenced to community service could be assigned jobs by councils or ordered to work for private firms, taking on ...

The independent review, commissioned by the Labour justice secretary Shabana Mahmood will recommend that magistrates and ...

Men's prisons in England and Wales could run out of space later this year, the government has warned, as it announced three ...

More than a thousand inmates will be released early to free up spaces in prisons in England and Wales, the justice secretary ...

Construction firm Kier is aiming to use this week's UKREiiF event to showcase its capabilities in Yorkshire and further ...

The prisons minister has admitted that the scale of organised crime gangs operating within Britain’s jails keeps him up at ...

Prisons minister James Timpson has told the BBC more criminals could be tagged in future instead of being sent to prison - ...

The UK’s newest prison opened for business last month – buying the Government a bit of breathing space as it tackles a capacity crisis at jails across England and Wales. The first prisoners ...

In March, Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood said “we simply cannot build our way out of the prisons capacity crisis” as she opened HMP Millsike that holds about 1,500 inmates. The Category C ...