The Latest Breaking News from Justice

A total of 88,238 people were in jail as of Monday, up 231 on the previous week, the Ministry of Justice said.

Justice secretary Shabana Mahmood vows the offenders will be sent ‘packing’ immediately when they receive a custodial sentence

The Windrush scandal has been one of the biggest miscarriages of justice in Britain, affecting tens of thousands of people. The government set up a scheme in 2019 to award compensation to those who had been wronged by racist immigration legislation over decades, left unable to prove their immigration status.

DJ Mehdi perished in a tragic accident aged 34. A new documentary, Made in France, restores his pivotal role in the electronic music revolution that grew out of 00s Paris

Justice secretary ‘determined to keep prison staff safe’ as rates of assaults on officers reached record levels last year

Specialist officers based in Kidlington, Oxfordshire, and Doncaster, South Yorkshire, will be the first to become equipped with Tasers from Monday.

As France's plan to isolate its 100 most dangerous drug traffickers at a high-security prison progresses, the first 17 of the inmates arrived at the facility in Vendin-le-Vieil in the north of the country on Tuesday, according to Justice Minister Gérald Darmanin.

Lords say jails are in crisis due to years of political and bureaucratic failure

Plans for Senate appropriators to approve a Justice Department funding bill collapsed over the location of a new FBI headquarters.