The Latest Breaking News from Prison

Shooting of escaping man was murder, jury told

A prison officer is defending a murder charge after shooting a shackled inmate who'd slipped a colleague's grip and run across a road.

AAP · Oct 16, 2023

‘More probation staff needed to ease jails crisis’

A shift away from the use of short sentences is intended to reduce the pressure on prison capacity

Evening Standard · Oct 16, 2023

Government to allow prisons to release some offenders 18 days early to ease overcrowding – as it happened

Justice secretary says move will not apply to anyone serving a life sentence and those released will be tagged

The Guardian - UK · Oct 16, 2023

More than half of women jailed serve sentences under six months – study

Analysis showed that ‘theft from shops’ was the most frequent offence (36%) for sentences of that time frame.

The Independent UK · Oct 15, 2023

Government to step up deportations in bid to free up space in prisons

Ministers are to unveil a slate of emergency measures in a bid to free up space

The Independent UK · Oct 15, 2023

Surge in number of women being jailed as overcrowding crisis grips prisons

‘Banging a mum up for theft from shops, such as stealing nappies or Calpol for a child, is not the answer,’ campaigner says

The Independent UK · Oct 15, 2023

Two-thirds of prisons officially overcrowded in England and Wales

HMP Wandsworth holding more extra prisoners than any other jail despite recent high-profile problems

The Guardian - UK · Oct 15, 2023

Britain’s filthy, violent prisons shame us all. Here’s why we should care

Despite evidence that brutalised jail inmates reoffend, there seems little drive to make the system more humane

The Guardian - UK · Oct 15, 2023

Low-level criminals to swap prison for community service, says Chalk

But rapists would be forced to serve their full sentence in prison under promised reforms, Alex Chalk has said.

The Independent UK · Oct 14, 2023

District panchayat president goes for reconciliation in mobile phone theft case

Eighty-nine per cent of compoundable criminal cases were resolved amicably at a jail adalat organised by the District Legal Services Authority (DLSA), in collaboration with the Department of Prisons, here on Saturday.

The Hindu · Oct 14, 2023