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Fact check: More than half of female prisoners sentenced for violent crimes

The proportion of women sentenced to prison for non-violent crimes has fallen over the past decade.

The Independent UK

Indeterminate and long-term prisoners are dogged by stigma and ‘set up to fail’ on release, report warns

Exclusive: Prisoners have revealed their struggle to find housing and employment while living under an ‘overwhelming’ threat of recall

The Independent UK

Prison staff fake checks on suicidal inmates as deaths soar, watchdog warns

A watchdog found prison staff had falsified records of checks on an inmate who died

The Independent UK

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Recall to prison needs urgent reform to avoid overcrowding crisis, charity warns

The sentences are less effective than other community-based solutions, the Prison Reform Trust said.

Evening Standard

Fishmongers’ Hall hero warns of more IPP prisoner suicides as he is finally freed from indefinite jail term

Marc Conway, who helped tackle a terrorist wearing a fake suicide vest, has backed The Independent’s campaign for all IPP prisoners to have their sentences reviewed

The Independent UK

Government launches sentencing review to tackle prison overcrowding

Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood is launching a review into sentencing that will explore tougher punishments outside of prisons

Evening Standard

Far-right group raises almost £15,000 for families of people jailed over UK riots

Patriotic Alternative described those locked up over the summer riots as ‘political prisoners’

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Why are prisons so full in England and Wales?

In a week in which the government has been forced to release inmates early, experts point to a confluence of factors in the overcrowding

The Guardian - UK

Get out of jail free: 1,700 prisoners released early - amid warnings some 'certain' to reoffend

Chief inspector of probation says it is ‘a certainty that some will reoffend’

Evening Standard

Prisoners trapped on indeterminate jail terms not included in Labour government’s sentencing review

Prisons minister Lord Timpson has announced IPP prisoners will not have their cases addressed in the government’s planned sentencing review

The Independent UK

British jails are at a breaking point – here’s how the Dutch halved their prison population

Amid the many historic appointments in his cabinet, the new prime minister Keir Starmer made one particularly noteworthy announcement: James Timpson to become minister for prisons, parole and probation. Timpson is not a politician but the head of the key-cutting and shoe repair company of the same name. He was…

The Conversation

A shoe-fixing, key-cutting radical: why Labour’s new prisons minister is perfect for the job

James Timpson hires ex-offenders and thinks many prisoners shouldn’t be in jail, says Simon Hattenstone

The Guardian - UK

Shocking spike in Black inmates targeted with pepper spray in prisons

Exclusive: Black prisoners targeted in more than 40 per cent of pepper spray incidents, despite only accounting for 13 per cent of prison population

The Independent UK

With bursting jails and Europe’s longest sentences, the last thing the UK needs is more rightwing ‘reforms’

The justice select committee’s plea for public engagement on prisons policy is poignant – and probably likely to go unheard, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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The Independent UK

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

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 Guardian - UK

Pepper spray could be used at young offender institutions in England and Wales

Exclusive: Whitehall sources say use of Pava to incapacitate children is under consideration amid sharp rise in violence

Nottingham Post

Work to create 20,000 new prison places 'significantly behind schedule'

The Prison Reform Trust said the prison population had risen by 80% in the past 30 years

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Wales Online

Plan to create 20,000 new prison places 'significantly behind schedule'

The Prison Reform Trust said the prison population had risen by 80% in the past 30 years

The Independent UK

Work to create 20,000 new prison places ‘significantly behind schedule’

The Government faces an ‘immediate crisis’ in prison capacity, Mark Day, deputy director of the Prison Reform Trust said.

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