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“Public safety must never be put at risk again by the failure to have enough prison places”, Lord Chancellor Shabana Mahmood said as she opened a new nearly 1,500-place prison in Yorkshire.
More dangerous criminals will be taken off the streets thanks to a 700-place expansion which will turn a Suffolk jail into the UK’s largest public sector prison.
Vulnerable girls sentenced to youth custody will no longer be placed in Young Offender Institutions (YOIs)
Foreign national offenders (FNOs) will be deported quicker thanks to a new £5 million government investment in prisons across England and Wales.
Correspondence from PSPRB Chair to the Minister of State for Justice relating to 2025-26 remit letter and timetable.
Susannah Hancock will carry out an independent review of the placement of girls in the children and young people’s secure estate.
Around 1,800 rehabilitated offenders still under indefinite probation oversight for abolished Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentences, years after completing their prison terms, will have this supervision lifted t…
Public safety will be at the heart of an independent review into sentencing, as the government pledges to end the crisis in our prisons.
A temporary measure to manage pressures in prisons in the north of England has been reactivated, following longstanding capacity failures and recent outbreaks of far-right disorder.
In a major speech at HMP Five Wells, the Rt Hon Shabana Mahmood KC MP set out measures to protect the public by preventing prisons from running out of places.
Lord Chancellor Shabana Mahmood has set out how the government will stop the impending collapse of the criminal justice system.
Prisoners who break the rules while behind bars face new community payback-style punishments like repair work and litter picking, under tough prison rules to be set out this week.
First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government
More female offenders than ever recorded before are in work 6 months after their release from prison as a direct result of government action – cutting crime and keeping the public safe.
Offenders in Wales with low-level mental health issues will be required to address them as part of a government scheme to tackle a major root cause of crime.
Mitie Care & Custody has been awarded the contract to operate HMP Millsike, the UK’s first all-electric prison that will provide around 1,500 places.
Correspondence between PSPRB Chair and Minister of State for Justice relating to 2024 round remit letter and timetable.
Communities blighted by vandalism and fly-tipping will be cleaned up by offenders as part of delivering on plans to crackdown on anti-social behaviour.
Young offenders from HMYOI Cookham Wood will be transferred and the site repurposed as an adult prison under plans announced by the Ministry of Justice today (21 March 2024).
New laws will see harmful content filmed inside prisons removed from social media platforms more quickly – shielding victims from further trauma and protecting prison security.
The Ministry of Justice has today (11 January 2024) confirmed the sale of the former Reading Prison site to a non-profit organisation, the Ziran Education Foundation.
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