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Prison early release scheme to include some serious offenders, MoJ admits

Prisoners serving time for lesser crime following serious one will be eligible under plan to free up jail space, officials confirm

The Guardian - UK

MoJ refused to repay living costs to wrongly convicted partly to save money

Letter shows department wanted to avoid ‘significant administrative and other financial costs’

The Guardian - UK

Justice review calls for end to child imprisonment in England

Rights organisations say child prisons remain inherently dangerous and result in poor outcomes on release

The Guardian - UK

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‘Shocking’ chaos at HMP Wandsworth was ‘in plain view of leaders’, report finds

The Ministry of Justice said it was deploying extra specialist staff and redirecting £100 million to the scandal-hit prison.

Evening Standard

‘Shocking’ HMP Wandsworth to get £100million and extra staff amid scandals

Charlie Taylor, HM Chief Inspector of Prisons, found failures in leadership ‘at every level’ at the south London jail in damning report

Evening Standard

Scandal-hit HMP Wandsworth to receive £100m to tackle ‘shocking’ failings

Justice secretary Shabana Mahmood warned that the report shows the ‘reality of a prison system in crisis’

The Independent UK

Sunak rejected advice to release prisoners early a year ago

Discussions took place in June 2023 but aides thought backbenchers would reject proposal to ease overcrowding

The Guardian - UK

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Violence, self-harm and drugs: Shock new figures lay bare crisis facing Britain’s prisons

Ministry of Justice (MoJ) figures on Thursday laid bare the scale of the chaos in UK prisons, days after the justice secretary announced emergency measures to ease the crisis

The Independent UK

In numbers: Rise in prison violence laid bare in new figures

Prison assaults have reached a post-Covid-19 pandemic high

The Independent UK

Cut ‘unsustainable’ probation workload in England and Wales, urges watchdog

Inspector says monitoring after short sentences could be stopped and youth services could take on some cases

The Guardian - UK

Use of ‘junk science’ lie detector tests for sex offenders triples in three years

Exclusive: ‘This junk science puts women and victims at risk,’ Labour MP warns

The Independent UK

MoJ cuts maximum time high-risk offenders spend in hostel supervision

Maximum hostel stays for serious offenders such as freed rapists and murderers reduced from 12 to eight weeks

The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak ‘risked breaching legal responsibilities over prison crisis’

Exclusive: leaked letters said without urgent action the system in England and Wales would reach ‘critical failure’

The Guardian - UK

Prison rehabilitation numbers in England and Wales down 74% since 2010, MoJ data shows

Almost 12,000 fewer inmates completed offender management courses than when David Cameron took office

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Prisons in England and Wales will be at ‘breaking point’ in July, governors told

Exclusive: heads of prisons say they will no longer be able to accept new inmates ‘very soon’ after 4 July election

The Independent UK

Bid to cut crown court backlog no longer achievable, spending watchdog warns

Cases waiting to be heard hit record levels instead of falling, with most taking nearly two years to go ahead

The Guardian - UK

Court backlog target in England and Wales no longer achievable, says NAO

Watchdog says outstanding caseload has increased from 60,000 to 67,573 since MoJ set target of 53,000 in 2021

The Guardian - UK

Bailiff evictions of renting households at six-year high, says MoJ

Protesters call for rent controls as 2,682 households evicted in first quarter of 2024 in England and Wales

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Evening Standard

Court delays imposed in emergency measure due to prison places crisis

Court hearings are set to be delayed and detained suspects could be set free as Operation Early Dawn triggered

The Guardian - UK

Government triggers crisis measure to ease prison overcrowding

Exclusive: Operation Safeguard confirmed by Ministry of Justice after damning report on conditions in one of UK’s biggest jails

The Guardian - UK

Prisons ‘sleepwalking into crisis’ as inmates forced to share single cells

Longer sentences and court backlogs push 25% of prisoners in England and Wales into shared cells, adding to drug-use and violence

The Guardian - UK

Legal profession’s most powerful among members of London’s men-only Garrick Club

Roll-call of gentlemen’s club, which bars women, includes judges, barristers and ministers

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s a very unfair system’: family of man who took his own life criticise indefinite sentences

Relatives of Francis Williams say threat of return to prison without committing another crime was ‘torture’ for him

Evening Standard

Killer pilot takes legal action against minister’s decision to block release

BA captain Robert Brown beat his wife Joanna Simpson to death with a claw hammer in their family home in October 2010.

Evening Standard

Government 'unlawful' when it snubbed 'bare minimum' pay hike for Legal Aid solicitors, says High Court

The justice system is set to 'wither beyond repair' without proper funding, solicitors warn

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