The independent review says successive governments made "knee jerk" decisions to issue longer prison sentences.

While successive governments have tried to show they were "tough on crime" it has resulted in prisons being on the "brink of ...

UK’s prison overcrowding crisis fuelled by ‘tough on crime’ talk, Labour’s new tsar finds - David Gauke, former Conservative ...

New analysis suggests sentencing reform are often focusing only on punishment in a bid to look “tough on crime” often leading ...

Toni Cole, 29, who also kissed the criminal and sat on his lap, is jailed for forming a ‘sexualised’ and ‘flirtatious’ ...

David Gauke says ‘penal populism’ has spurred a 30-year political competition to impose ever-longer jail terms ...

Prison officer Toni Cole, 29, sent thousands of messages to the lag and took part in 18 videos calls while engaging in ...

Pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai is physically breaking down in a Hong Kong prison and "time is running out" for him if ...

A long-running crisis of overstuffed jails and backlogged courts has reached a critical level.View on euronews ...

The first of up to 390 prisoners are being released early in the latest attempt to ease overcrowding in Scotland's jails.

Hundreds of prisoners will be freed in Scotland as part of a broader emergency response to ease the burden of overcrowded ...

A female prison officer who sent more than 4,000 racy messages during a sexual relationship with a prisoner has been jailed for 12 months. Toni Cole, 29, was discovered to have shared a series of ...