G4S admits it overcharged by millions for tagging offenders
The global security company is to repay just over £24m it overcharged over seven years, and has apologised to the Ministry of Justice.
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Files relating to three judge-led inquiries, including the police shooting of Mark Duggan, have gone missing in the post, the Ministry of Justice says.
The global security company is to repay just over £24m it overcharged over seven years, and has apologised to the Ministry of Justice.
The Ministry of Justice orders all halal products from one unnamed prison supplier be destroyed after tests – prompted by the recent horse meat scandal – found some contained non-halal meat.
The United Kingdom is locking up her children too young and too often – and it’s not helping to rehabilitate them, says Europe’s human rights watchdog.The Ministry of Justice hasn’t reviewed the minimum age since the 1960s. But does it need to?
Feral Underclass is a humdinger of a phrase from Ken Clarke, but what does it mean? Previously, David Cameron lumped the rioters together as “pockets of our society that are not only broken, but frankly sick”. And after almost a month of naming and shaming the rioters in the national press, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has released the facts. So do they deserve the stigma? FactCheck investigates.
Channel 4 News Political Editor Gary Gibbon asks whether the Ministry of Justice has been getting its sums wrong on sentencing policy.
Metropolitan Police pilot the Diamond project may help the Ministry of Justice cut millions off its criminal justice bill and also reduce reoffending, reports Home Affairs Correspondent Simon Israel.
Exclusive: Channel 4 News has learned that 14,000 jobs are to go at the Ministry of Justice – 11,000 of them from the frontline, according to a leaked internal memo.
Staff inexperience has been linked to problems across the prison estate – and FactCheck finds the number of experienced prison officers has fallen by 40 per cent since 2010.
Feltham Young Offenders Institution in West London has been branded the most violent prison in England and Wales by inspectors.
Prisons in England are now so full that people newly charged by the police are having their court appearances delayed because there might not be a cell available if they’re sent to jail awaiting trial.
A damning new report on children in custody by HM Inspectorate of Prisons has warned that young offender institutions in England and Wales are becoming more violent than adult prison, with young offenders spending way too much time locked up on their own.
Prison officers are demanding the government immediately introduces so-called PAVA spray to be used on violent young offenders – warning that further delays will end in tragedy.
Prisons in England and Wales are so full that the government’s had to turn to police cells to house prisoners. We can reveal the cost is running into the millions. It’s called Operation Safeguard – an emergency scheme, allowing the Ministry of Justice to take over police cells and use them to lock up prisoners…
Some police forces told us they received six figure sums for providing cells that weren’t ever occupied.