A SECOND wave of 1,000 prisoners will be released today under Keir Starmer’s controversial plan to reduce overcrowding in ...

The Government has started to release an additional 1,100 prisoners early as part of a plan to ease overcrowding in prisons.

A damning inspection has highlighted a catalogue of failings at one of the UK’s most ... beyond the prison walls and into our communities”. Inspectors said two-thirds of Brixton’s 740 ...

The early release of prisoners to tackle overcrowding will be undermined by the “high level of recalls” of offenders to jail, ...

Over a thousand prisoners left their cells early on Tuesday across England and Wales as part of the Government's plan to ease pressure on jails. "Punishment outside of prison" is the Justice Secretary ...

A convicted armed kidnapper released early from jail today shouted “big up Keir Starmer” as he posed on a new £150,000 ...

Imprisonment for public protection sentences were introduced by New Labour in 2005 as a way to tackle prisoners who posed a ...

A prison in south London is failing to prepare inmates for release with almost half saying it is easy to obtain and buy drugs, a watchdog report has found. Inspectors visited HMP Brixton in June ...

The Brixton prison imam who Paul Song believes was instrumental in forcing him out of the jail once launched a bizarre attack on Barbie dolls. Mohammed Yusuf Ahmed said in 2011: 'Barbie dolls ...