Strangeways inmate locked in 23 hours a day and not let out to eat took own life

Strangeways prisoner Lee Gorst, 35, took his own life after being locked in his cell for all-but an hour, with a damning ...
The Economist

Britain’s overstretched prisons are releasing inmates by mistake

Mistaken releases, where a prisoner had no intent of escaping, have surged at prisons in England and Wales, to 262 in 2024-25 (see chart). This is more than double the number of the previous year, and ...

Thousands of criminals could be released early under government sentencing reform, Tories say

The government's Sentencing Bill, due to be debated by MPs on Tuesday, introduces a scheme which would allow the early ...