Charity Detention Action said the report highlighted the ‘inhumanity and harm of indefinite detention’. In 2022-23, nearly 50 ...

New data has revealed a shocking increase in deaths at the hands of the police and in custody, the highest in 17 years.

Frances Crook believes ‘politicians are still stuck in the 1950s’ when it comes to our criminal justice system. For 35 years, she has been at the helm of the Howard League for Penal Reform, trying to ...

A parliamentary inquiry into the controversial law around joint enterprise is to begin work next month. The Westminster Commission for Joint Enterprise is to be launched at an event in the House of ...

An investigation by the Prison and Probation Ombudsman was ‘very concerned’ that staff at HMP Wandsworth had no ‘meaningful interaction’ with a prisoner prior to his self-inflicted death in 2021.

An undercover police officer has admitted that he spied on Keir Starmer when he was a barrister advising two environmental campaigners as they took on McDonalds in what became the longest civil trial ...

A new report by the charity StopWatch has found that stop and search powers fail to reduce violence, but drag racialised ...

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 ...