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 ...

Staff have reported a "rodent infestation", broken CCTV cameras, faulty lighting and an "ongoing legionella issue" across the ...

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

Successive governments trying to look "tough on crime" have driven a rising prison population that's overwhelmed the system, ...

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 ...

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 ...