Perhaps the most significant finding is the fact that the shorter the sentence, the higher the reoffending rate. Reoffending ...

Medical law is based on the idea that a patient consents to an intervention that will benefit them. Is that the case here?

as the latest weekly prison population in England and Wales stands at 88,087 (Victoria Jones/PA) This is 434 below the last peak in the prison population of 88,521 inmates on September 6 ...

It shows there were 556 prisoners at Woodhill prison in Milton Keynes at the end of March – up from 333 a year earlier. Meanwhile, there were 87,919 prisoners in England and Wales at the end of ...

The latest measures are aimed at dealing with the scale of the continuing crisis in prisons, as the latest weekly prison population in England and Wales stands at 88,087. This is 434 below the ...

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ), which owns the prison, granted HMP Parc pre-application approval in September 2024. In a statement, the MoJ said prisons in Wales and England are "days from collapse".

A 'prolific' shoplifter arrested in Wythenshawe has been banned from every Co-op store in England and Wales, police have ... He was jailed for six months, a prison sentence that was suspended ...

LONDON, May 22 (Reuters) - Britain is considering mandating the use of chemical castration for sex offenders under an overhaul of the justice system aimed at freeing up more space in its ...

Men's prisons in England and Wales could run out of space later this ... the outgoing chief executive of His Majesty's Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS). Ms Rees outlined how the male prison ...

Prisoners in England who are ... offenders are returned to prison. Officials at the Ministry of Justice warned that without the measure, jails in England and Wales would hit full capacity again ...

Every year across England and Wales around 44,000 people are released from prison, but fewer than 20 per cent have found employment a year after their release. Around 80 per cent of all crime is ...