Almost lost amid the avalanche of publicity which accompanied the release of the Birmingham Six on 14 March 1991 was an announcement from Home Secretary Kenneth Baker MP. A Royal Commission was to be ...

The intelligence agency MI5 lied to three courts in order to protect an undercover agent, a neo-Nazi who attacked his girlfriend with a machete. The BBC has revealed that the agency lied in court to ...

51 people died in Home Office accommodation last year, a Guardian freedom of information request has revealed. This is a substantial increase from 11 deaths in 2023. The Home Office initially claimed ...

A recent unannounced inspection of HMP/YOI Standford Hill by the prisons watchdog raised concerns about hygiene, healthcare, and prisoner welfare but praised the prison for safety, quality of life, ...

UN Special Rapporteur Dr. Alice Jill Edwards has condemned the indefinite detention of prisoners under the UK Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) scheme, reporting the scheme as ‘cruel, inhumane ...

An inquest into the deaths of three inmates at HMP Lowdham Grange in Nottinghamshire has exposed serious failings in prison management, raising concerns about the safety of vulnerable prisoners. The ...

A jury has acquitted six young Black boys of all charges after rejecting the prosecution’s attempt to convict them under joint enterprise laws. Joint enterprise allows for the prosecution of ...

The chief executive of the troubled miscarriage of justice watchdog spent thousands of pounds of public money on luxury French hotels, according to a Guardian investigation. It is reported that Karen ...

Women’s prisons have ‘astonishing gaps in basic decency’ and an ‘overreliance’ on physical force according to new research which examined conditions in four jails. Self-harm among women in prison has ...

An international panel of neonatologists and medical experts reviewing the deaths of babies at the Countess of Chester Hospital has found no evidence of murder by the former nurse Lucy Letby – instead ...

The government plans to double funding towards neighbourhood policing teams, investing £200 million in the next financial year. The funding aims to ensure the government meet their target of ...

Reported incidents of rape and sexual assault have risen fourfold in the past decade, according to a new report that says the Home Office has made ‘little progress’ to improve the situation. One in 12 ...