Cameron’s reshuffle is for finishers, not visionaries
When David Cameron met Iain Duncan Smith last night he told him that he wanted him to deploy the visionary creative genius he’d shown at DWP at the Department of Justice.
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Chris Grayling has announced plans to close six public jails in the biggest prison closure programme in decades. So where does that leave overcrowding? We answer a few key questions.
Prisoners should only be released before the end of their sentence if they have behaved well, the justice secretary urges, saying he wants an end to the automatic early release system.
Claims that look-a-likes are being used by the rich and powerful in Chinese court cases raise questions about the credibility of the country’s legal system, as Asia Correspondent John Sparks reports.
Lack of action over the number of children and young people dying behind bars represents a “devastating indictment of bad practice”, according to a former chief inspector of prisons.
There are no hard statistics available on outcomes yet, which means we effectively have to take the minister’s word for it.
On the day the prime minister insists that “prison must work”, Channel 4 News producer Matthew Moore asks a recently released life-term prisoner about reoffending and adjusting to society.
As the home secretary is praised for blocking the extradition to the US of a man with Asperger’s syndrome, the government is accused of “old-fashioned racism” over a similar case.
Why can’t we call the corporate bluff and exclude all companies who have a presence in a tax haven from public contracts?
Exclusive: a serving soldier with British armed forces, who is under threat of deportation, tells Channel 4 News that if he is sent back to his homeland he could be imprisoned for being a mercenary.
Ukip’s popularity with voters has nudged 10 per cent this year, making the party more popular than the Liberal Democrats at times.
More than 130 inmates escaped through a tunnel from a Mexican prison on the border with the US in one of the worst jailbreaks the country’s beleaguered penal system has suffered in recent years.
UK prison sentences for unspecified periods are a breach of human rights guaranteeing liberty and security, the European Court of Human Rights finds.
The number of inmates in British prisons will remain near record levels for six years after a government U-turn on sentencing reforms, Whitehall’s spending watchdog warns.
When David Cameron met Iain Duncan Smith last night he told him that he wanted him to deploy the visionary creative genius he’d shown at DWP at the Department of Justice.
Anders Breivik’s psychiatrist speaks to Channel 4 News Home Affairs Correspondent Simon Israel about how she found Breivik to be “a normal man with quite weird ideas”.