People with criminal records obviously want to reform criminal records checks. They face considerable bias and discrimination when they apply for jobs and their offence is disclosed in DBS checks.

A former police officer who claims to have been wrongly convicted has called an almost decade-long delay by the Criminal Cases Review Commission in making a decision to send his case back to the Court ...

The early release of prisoners, as was seen in response to the crisis in prison capacity last summer, is set to become part of the UK government’s prisons reforms. The Justice Secretary, Shabana ...

HMP Millsike has opened as the UK’s first ‘green prison,’ creating some 1500 prison places. The site, described by critics as a ‘megaprison,’ is equipped with solar panels and heat pump technology and ...

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Almost lost amid the avalanche of publicity which accompanied the release of the Birmingham Six on 14 March 1991 was an announcement from Home Secretary Kenneth Baker MP. A Royal Commission was to be ...