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Statistics provided by the Howard League for Penal Reform with a breakdown by ethnicity show that a Black/Black British man ...

The Office for Students (OfS) has issued a new set of guidelines to establish a firmer approach to managing lawful protests ...

A prison in Nottinghamshire has been given ‘the worst possible score’ on safety in its latest inspection by the prisons watchdog. An inspection report on HMP Lowdham Grange has revealed critical ...

Baroness Louise Casey was commissioned to produce the report earlier this year. She said the system failed due to ‘blindness, ignorance, prejudice, defensiveness, and even good but misdirected ...

More than 30,000 criminal prosecutions collapsed across England and Wales between 2020 and 2024 due to lost, missing, or damaged evidence, according to Crown Prosecution Service data. The crisis ...

The incoming interim chair of the miscarriage of justice watchdog has described the leadership at the troubled organization as ‘arrogant’ and ‘dismissive’. Dame Vera Baird KC told the the BBC Radio ...

Following a trainwreck meeting with the Criminal Cases Review Commission’s leadership team last month, the House of Commons’ justice committee has called upon the watchdog’s chief exec to go. The ...

There were renewed calls last week for a reinvestigation into the alleged wrongful conviction of Eddie Gilfoyle. It was revealed that a former head of Merseyside CID, who led the investigation which ...

A former Lord Chancellor has accused the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) of being responsible for delaying the quashing of the conviction of a man who has served 38 years in prison for murder ...