Probation Institute announced
After several months of speculation, the Ministry of Justice has announced the establishment of a new Probation Institute.
The new Institute, a partnership of the Probation Chiefs...
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After several months of speculation, the Ministry of Justice has announced the establishment of a new Probation Institute.
The new Institute, a partnership of the Probation Chiefs...
In a bid to improve 'public confidence' in the criminal justice system, Justice Minister Chris Grayling has announced (again) that all community sentences are to incorporate a 'punitive element'. The reforms brought about by the Crime and Courts Act 2013 will come into...
Police sources are claiming that crimes such as shoplifting and property thefts may be on the rise, The Times reports.
Unoffficial police data, released in advance of a Whitehall summit...
Back in 2005, the then MP for Henley Boris Johnson wrote in The Daily Telegraph:
'The real divide is between the entire class of
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Lord Sumption, a Supreme Court judge, has argued in a speech that the 'expansion of the empire of law' has been driven by the decline in religious and moral values, The Daily Telegraph ...
Six prisoners at G4S-run Oakwood prison staged a seven hour rooftop protest yesterday, BBC news reports. Last month three prisoners mounted a rooftop protest at the same prison.
Last month the Chief...
The Times reports that police officers in London have been given a target to fine ten cyclists per month for traffic offences, in response to the recent spate of cycling deaths in the...
One of our colleagues spotted this gem on his way home the other night.
Really? 74 homes saved from burglary? Exactly? How do they know?
Their former boss John Stevens drew attention to his psychic powers in his 2005 autobiography...
Our Director Richard Garside argues that the Independent Police Commission proposal to replace Police and Crime Commissioners with an enhanced role for local authorities is a step in the right direction that deserves support.
Police and Crime Commissioners, he argues, have undermined,...
The ONS has revealed that 31,000 extra people last year died during Britain’s freezing conditions with one third of these being due to cold houses....
Ministry of Justice figures show that callouts of the National Tactical Response Group in prisons grew by 50 per cent between 2012 and 2013.
The former Chief Inspector of Prisons, Lord Ramsbotham, told The Independent of his growing concerns over prison conditions:...