Lord Timpson told ITV News that short sentences are a 'disaster' for female prisoners, and that his government's reforms to ...

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Short prison sentences are disproportionately expensive, especially when compared with community sentences. The offenders serving them have committed relatively minor offences, so pose a low risk ...

Short prison sentences are associated with higher reoffending rates—about 55% for sentences under 12 months compared to 27.5% overall—while evidence indicates that rehabilitation and community ...

But the justice secretary says she rejects recommendations for earlier releases of the most serious offenders.

Short term prison sentences for violent crimes 'a waste of time' ... 2024, and he, like all prisoners who are not serving life sentences, is entitled to a 25% remission of his sentence.

Campaigners have hit out at the "short-sighted" decision not to include prisoners on indefinite sentences in the plans to reduce the prison population. On Thursday, the government published its ...

The Scottish Government's presumption against short term sentences is failing as almost three quarters of prisoners were jailed for less than a year.. Alec Spencer, a former prison governor and ...