An investigation by the Prison and Probation Ombudsman was ‘very concerned’ that staff at HMP Wandsworth had no ‘ meaningful interaction ’ with a prisoner prior to his self-inflicted death in 2021.

An undercover police officer has admitted that he spied on Keir Starmer when he was a barrister advising two environmental campaigners as they took on McDonalds in what became the longest civil trial ...

A new report by the charity StopWatch has found that stop and search powers fail to reduce violence, but drag racialised ...

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 ...

HMP Manchester has become the latest prison to be put special measures after an inspection found ‘squalid’, rodent-infested cells, wings awash with illegal drugs, and some of the highest rates of ...

There were a total of 304 deaths of people in prison during this period, 92 of which were self-inflicted. Every four days ...

The outgoing boss of the Post Office has told the Horizon inquiry today he was told not to ‘dig into the details of the past’ by its leading lawyer when he first took on the job, replacing the ...

Former Metropolitan Police officer David Carrick has been charged with further sexual offences against two women. These offences include five counts of indecent assault, two counts of rape, one count ...

The outgoing Chief Executive of the Post Office, Nick Read, is due to give evidence to the Horizon IT inquiry for three days this week. Read took over from the disgraced former boss, Paula Vennells, ...