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

Three members of a 'wicked, vile and sordid' grooming gang are to have their 'pathetically short sentences' reviewed by the Court of Appeal. Ibrar Hussain, 47, and brothers Imtiaz Ahmed, 62, and ...

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.

The Corrections Minister is looking at scrapping short prison sentences in favour of longer ones, in the hope of reducing reoffending. Mark Mitchell said people with longer sentences have more ...

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 ...

Contrary to what some think, judges do not hand out their sentences with a scattergun approach. They are bound by strict ...

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 ...

The number of short custodial sentences without early release dropped by nearly half in 2024 compared with the previous year, while offences under the Foreign Nationals and Integration Act ...