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James Timpson, the prisons minister, will investigate scheme in Spain that gives option of real-time alert

Ministers told they risk more miscarriages of justice by not backing bill to replace indefinite jail terms with fixed ones

Prisons minister James Timpson has defended the government’s controversial scheme to free some prisoners after serving 40 per cent of their sentence

Cameron Moseley hopes never to return to jail thanks to a pioneering scheme in London that aims to cut reoffending by training former prisoners to become bicycle mechanics.

Shabana Mahmood tells conference she wants more help in community for offenders and fewer cases going to court

The former Conservative justice secretary is on a shortlist to lead a policy review that could herald radical reforms

The early days of the new Labour government have given prison reform advocates reason to be hopeful. Two announcements – the appointment of James Timpson as prisons minister and an expanded early release programme – are promising steps towards repairing a criminal justice system that has been devastated by cuts…

Exclusive: Former chief inspector of prisons Nick Hardwick says money would be better spent preventing crime

James Timpson, former CEO of the high street cobbler and keycutter that bears his family name, was appointed this summer as the UK’s new minister for prisons, probation and reducing re-offending.