A report from an unannounced inspection of Durham Prison in January 2025 has highlighted serious concerns over prisoner welfare including a 60% rise in prisoner-on-prisoner assaults. The Chief ...

The Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) has referred the 1977 conviction of Errol Campbell to the Court of Appeal, marking the twelfth case tied to discredited British Transport Police officer DS ...

Murder is to intentionally take another’s life. For such a heinous crime there must be an equally severe punishment. Something to hurt the perpetrator, deter others and protect society from further ...

51 people died in Home Office accommodation last year, a Guardian freedom of information request has revealed. This is a substantial increase from 11 deaths in 2023. The Home Office initially claimed ...

The justice minister has promised to ‘restore confidence’ in the troubled miscarriage of justice watchdog after its chair finally stepped down early after months of pressure. In an exchange in the ...

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 ...

We think we know what rape is but do we? The legal definition of it has been adapting over time and the greatest legal strides have been made in the last 42 years, writes Natalie Smith. Daphne Morgan ...

Women’s prisons have ‘astonishing gaps in basic decency’ and an ‘overreliance’ on physical force according to new research which examined conditions in four jails. Self-harm among women in prison has ...

An international panel of neonatologists and medical experts reviewing the deaths of babies at the Countess of Chester Hospital has found no evidence of murder by the former nurse Lucy Letby – instead ...

Sixteen environmental activists jailed for nonviolent protests are appealing their sentences in a landmark hearing in the Court of Appeal. The appellants, including high-profile figures from climate ...

The prisons minister has said he wants to reverse the rise in number of women prisoners and close a women’s prison. Speaking to the Guardian, James Timpson said at least one of the women’s prisons on ...

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 ...