About 85,000 offenders in England and Wales will get an extra £1 a week to help them stay on the ‘straight and narrow’ ...

The number of inmates grew by 1,184 in the five weeks from December 30 and February 3, according to analysis by the PA news ...

The cost of injury claims for staff assaulted by inmates at a Doncaster jail has topped more than £250,000, according to new ...

EXCLUSIVE: The mother of a child who was charged and sentenced in just 24 hours has welcomed support from Children's ...

COURT cases reported by The Standard this week across Cheshire, Chester and Ellesmere Port included a city drug dealer and an abuser.

Former England international Peter Crouch once said that Leon Jeanne "looked like he could go far" but he was convicted of ...

Research from the IRR on charging and sentencing after the far-right-orchestrated racial violence in England in summer ...

His Majesty The King has approved the award of 9 new Honorary King's Counsel (KC Honoris Causa) in England and Wales. His ...

Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood set out the 10-year plan to ensure there is "always a place in our prisons for dangerous offenders", with the prison population in England and Wales ballooning in ...

This footage, filmed at a branch on London 's Chancery Lane, is only one of countless examples of brazen shoplifting that have been caught on camera across the UK.

A man has been jailed after his XL bully attacked a 12-year-old girl. Justin Allison, 38, from Ebbw Vale, was sentenced to ...

Shortages of prison staff, mental health problems among inmates, and overcrowding, fuelled by court delays, have pushed the ...