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Prisoners could earn early parole through good behaviour and working

Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood has been on a fact-finding mission to Texas.

Evening Standard · Feb 28, 2025

Prison shake-up could see inmates work to earn freedom

Texas-inspired changes are being proposed for UK prisons

The Independent UK · Feb 28, 2025

Prison should be the last resort of criminal justice

Letters: Readers share their perspectives on prisoner literacy, custodial sentencing and the objective of being ‘tough on crime’

The Guardian - UK · Feb 24, 2025

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Top Tory accidentally exposes party’s shocking record on prison spaces

Exclusive: Responding to a written question from Tory MP Richard Holden, a justice minister revealed that the Conservatives increased the capacity of the prison estate by less than 500 spaces in fourteen years

The Independent UK · Feb 19, 2025

The Guardian view on the Gauke review: prison isn’t working

Editorial: A performative ‘tough on crime’ approach by politicians has been both ineffective and ruinously expensive

The Guardian - UK · Feb 18, 2025

UK’s prison overcrowding crisis fuelled by ‘tough on crime’ talk, Labour’s new tsar finds

David Gauke, former Conservative justice secretary, has said longer jail terms have been a ‘knee-jerk’ policy response to show government action

The Independent UK · Feb 18, 2025

Prisons crisis: Posturing 'tough on crime' politicians to blame for justice system collapse

David Gauke’s major review of criminal sentencing blames posturing ‘tough on crime’ politicians for the prisons crisis

Evening Standard · Feb 18, 2025

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Prison system crisis due to overreliance on long sentences, says Gauke review

Successive governments’ ‘penal populism’ has driven England and Wales justice system to brink of collapse, report finds

The Guardian - UK · Feb 18, 2025

Political drive to look ‘tough on crime’ behind prison capacity crisis – report

The Independent Sentencing Review said longer jail terms have been a ‘knee jerk’ policy response which has led to an overwhelmed system.

The Independent UK · Feb 18, 2025

‘Creative use of punishment’: Covid-style lockdowns proposed for criminals in England and Wales

Bar Council calls for pandemic restrictions to help reintegrate non-violent offenders into society and ease pressure on overcrowded jails

The Guardian - UK · Jan 19, 2025

MP calls for specific domestic violence offence in England and Wales

Exclusive: Josh Babarinde pushing for change in law after some abusers were part of autumn early release from prison

The Guardian - UK · Dec 29, 2024

Assaults in prisons in England and Wales rise to average of 74 a day

Research for Lib Dems shows nearly 27,000 assaults were recorded last year, with about 3,200 deemed serious

The Guardian - UK · Dec 28, 2024

Offenders should be moved to open prisons to tackle overcrowding, says former justice secretary

David Gauke says we should follow the example of Spain, where the prison population has fallen

The Independent UK · Dec 27, 2024

Former justice secretary urges UK to make more use of open prisons

David Gauke is leading a sentencing review.

Evening Standard · Dec 26, 2024

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Evening Standard · Dec 19, 2024

End unfair criminal punishments for domestic abuse survivors, say campaigners

Shabana Mahmood has already promised to cut the number of women serving prison sentences

The Guardian - UK · Dec 17, 2024

Prisons crisis will test Labour’s mettle

Letter: Prof Rod Morgan says the last thing we should be doing is expanding the prison system as the government intends to do

The Guardian - UK · Dec 12, 2024

The Guardian view on Labour and prisons: sustained courage is needed for rational reform

Circumstances have forced the government into a more rational penal policy but it will take time to show results

The Guardian - UK · Dec 11, 2024

Specialist courts proposed to break addictions of prolific offenders in England and Wales

Exclusive: Pilots of scheme to tackle drug-driven crimes have been encouraging, says head of sentencing review

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The Guardian - UK · Oct 23, 2024

Wednesday briefing: What reforms could actually solve the prison capacity crisis?

In today’s newsletter: With a sentencing review ordered and the crisis in the criminal justice system deepening, the government is tasked with finding solutions to what seems like an intractable problem

The Guardian - UK · Oct 23, 2024

Britain suffered 14 years of Tory small-state delusion. Labour’s budget will turn the page on that

While the Tories harp on about the ECHR or the ‘woke bureaucracy’, Rachel Reeves will get serious about public investment, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

Evening Standard · Oct 23, 2024

Adult male prison spaces ‘fell into double figures’, says Shabana Mahmood

Shabana Mahmood said that when she was appointed as Lord Chancellor prisons were ‘weeks away from running out of space altogether’.

The Guardian - UK · Oct 22, 2024

Tories feign innocence as Labour give more prisoners early release

Tough-on-crime brigade look scarce as convicts win a break from crumbling prison system

The Independent UK · Oct 22, 2024

Starmer ‘shares public’s anger’ as prisoners pictured leaving prison early

Around 1,100 inmates are expected to be freed in a second wave of early releases under the Government’s policy to free up prison space.

The Independent UK · Oct 22, 2024

House arrest could replace prison for low-level offenders in attempt to ease overcrowding

Government review will look at using technology to place criminals in a ‘prison outside prison’

Evening Standard · Oct 22, 2024

Punishment outside of prison must be expanded, says Justice Secretary

Shabana Mahmood is launching a sentencing review that will consider expanding non-custodial sentences with the use of new monitoring technology.

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