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The Prime Minister left out some key details.
Last week the death in the segregation unit of Peterborough prison of a 47-year-old mother Annabella Landsberg, from Zimbabwe, was roundly condemned by an inquest jury. The prison ombudsman described the events as ‘shocking’. Her sister Sandra sat through the entire three-week hearing. She was lucky. She had legal aid. It stretched to paying for…
Despite claims at the weekend that the government would do all it can to stop the release of the serial sex attacker and rapist John Worboys, the Ministry of Justice has said it will not be challenging the Parole Board decision to release him.
Analysis that shows ethnic minority criminals are 240% more likely to be jailed for drug offences cannot exclude the possibility that the BAME offenders were simply convicted of more serious crimes.
Last month saw a spate of prison riots, with violence at jails in Hertfordshire and Worcestershire. Some commentators claimed the unrest was “a disaster waiting to happen”. But what’s really going on inside Briton’s prisons? And are prison officers facing an uphill battle to stay in control?
The Ministry of Justice has launched an investigation into the escape of a ‘highly dangerous’ prisoner – Channel 4 News can reveal – on the day it publishes its Prisons and Courts Bill which includes plans to penalise prison governors for escapes. An international manhunt is now underway for convicted murderer Shaun Walmsley who had…
Suicides double in five years, five ambulance calls out a day to a prison in Bristol because of drug use, and a sixth death in one London prison alone in the past year. And if it couldn’t get any worse it does. Today, yet another damning report by the prison inspectorate into a failing prison which will test Liz Truss’s resolve on how quickly she can respond.
Black Lives Matter UK have moved on to protesting about climate change. Is it really a race issue?
Gary Gibbon
Boris Johnson, the narrative goes, is for the little guy, the fellow on PAYE, the little people who pay their taxes.
Gary Gibbon
Two sides to his personality have long vied in Michael Gove’s political career: the free-thinker and the ambitious ally of George Osborne and David Cameron.
Gary Gibbon
Allies of Iain Duncan Smith feel they have fought a feisty rearguard action after the Treasury came snooping round their universal credit money.
The government pulls its £5.9bn bid to train Saudi Arabian justice officials, as David Cameron promises to intervene over the proposed flogging of British grandfather Karl Andree in the Gulf kingdom.
The number of parents being prosecuted for their child missing school is on the rise, with thousands facing action last year.
Channel 4 News has uncovered edits made to Wikipedia from inside government offices on topics including Rolf Harris, Jean Charles de Menezes and Fireman Sam.
Lawyers say the government is destroying the legal aid system. Ministers say our system is one of the most expensive in the world. Who’s right?