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Sir Keir Starmer said that he was ‘angry and frustrated’ by ‘intolerable’ wrongful prisoner releases.

Sir Keir Starmer said his deputy could ‘speak for himself’ on questions around whether a prisoner was wrongfully freed before new checks were imposed.

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: Forgetting to wear a poppy to his first appearance leading PMQs now looks like the least of the justice minister’s problems. His lack of candour with the Commons about yet another foreign-national sex offender being mistakenly released from prison – on his own departmental watch –…

A new federal immigration detention center in rural in southwest Nebraska has begun housing immigration detainees

Justice secretary says he did not have ‘all the detail’ at the time and there is ‘mountain to climb’ on prisons crisis

William ‘Billy’ Smith, 35, returned to Wandsworth prison after being mistakenly released on Monday

Editorial: Recent cases of prisoners let go by mistake rightly disturb the public. But they reflect the overstretched and underfunded criminal justice architecture

According to government figures, 262 prisoners were released in error in the year ending March 2025, a 128% increase on the previous 12-month period.

Justice secretary seemed to be the only person not being released, as he hid from questions about latest prison mishaps

Release follows supreme court ruling that overturned Jeanine Áñez’s conviction for allegedly staging coup to seize power

Sean 'Diddy' Combs secures an expedited appeal in his federal case, opening a way to reduce his sentence as experts say a Trump pardon is still possible.