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Prisons and probation

July 2024

  • The founders of Tap, now a highly successful social enterprise

    Oxford brewery helps cut reoffending rates by training jail-leavers to make ale

  • Anne Owers

    Take it from a former prisons inspector: letting offenders out early won’t fix our broken system

    Anne Owers
  • a prison officer walking past cells

    Fears UK prisons face ‘collapse’ as they could be full before early release scheme begins

  • Prisons have been operating at more than 99% capacity since the start of 2023 and are expected to run out of empty cells within weeks, the government has said

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    Justice secretary says thousands of prisoners will be released early 'to avert disaster' – video

  • Sunak and ministers are ‘guilty men’ in prisons crisis, says justice secretary

  • UK politics: probation chief questions if there is ‘enough time’ for early prisoner release plan – as it happened

  • Sunak government freed more than 10,000 prisoners up to 70 days early

  • Could Britain solve its prisons crisis by going Dutch?

  • Law and order on UK streets would break down if jails became full, say police sources

  • Colin Pitchfork parole hearing will not be held in public after ‘fresh allegations’

  • James Timpson is a sign of hope for a rational prisons policy

  • Starmer ‘shocked’ about prisons crisis as early release scheme prepared

  • Prisons crisis must not jeopardise Labour’s pledge on domestic abuse, Starmer told

  • The Guardian view on overcrowded prisons: James Timpson’s arrival is a signal of hope

  • Conditions at UK immigration removal centre ‘worst inspectors have seen’

  • Labour must avoid release of high-risk offenders in prison plans, charity warns

  • A shoe-fixing, key-cutting radical: why Labour’s new prisons minister is perfect for the job

    Simon Hattenstone

  • Labour consider plan to release prisoners after 40% of sentence served

  • Prison reform experts hail role for shoe repair CEO James Timpson

  • Five key workers on how Labour can fix Britain, from the NHS to prisons

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