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Chief prisons inspector: Overcrowding is a ticking time bomb
The Independent via Yahoo News· 5 months agoThe UK must decide what the point of jail is, the chief inspector of prisons has warned, as he...
The prisoners who have married behind bars
The Independent UK via AOL· 1 year agoAround 60 prisoners applied to get married last year, but new legislation could mean prisoners serving whole-life terms would be banned from ever getting...
Lifer who shot dead policeman in 2003 given second life term for prison attack
Press Association News via AOL· 2 years agoA convicted killer who wounded a female prison officer in a “frenzied” 10-second attack while...
‘A blot on our legal system’: New head of prisons’ union calls for urgent review of indefinite...
The Independent via Yahoo News· 1 month agoExclusive: Britain must properly fund prison system to ease current ‘impossible’ situation – or else...
Killer offers to return to UK to show woman where he buried her mother in 1969
Press Association News via AOL· 6 months agoA convicted murderer has offered to return to the UK from Trinidad to show his victim’s daughter...
Low-level offenders to be spared jail to free up space in overcrowded prisons
The Independent UK via AOL· 7 months agoLow-level offenders are to be spared jail and made to do community service in a bid to free up space...
David Cameron accuses Russian foreign minister to his face: ‘You murdered Navalny’
The Independent via Yahoo News· 3 months agoDavid Cameron has told Russia’s foreign minister to his face that Russia murdered Alexei Navalny –...
Ex-prisoner’s cry for help over indefinite jail term before his death
The Independent via Yahoo News· 5 months ago“I’m stuck in a never-ending cycle of which suicide is quite possibly really the only way out.”...
Charles Bronson: Parole board explains why it won’t release notorious prisoner
The Independent UK via AOL· 1 year agoThe Parole Board has refused the latest bid for freedom by Charles Bronson, one of the UK’s...
Jailed Putin critic Navalny gets 19 extra years in penal camp in latest attempt by the Kremlin to...
The Independent UK via AOL· 10 months agoA Russian court has convicted the imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny of extremism charges...