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  • Freeing Britain’s ‘ghost prisoners’ is the first step towards prison reform

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    "Torturous" indeterminate sentences have led prisoners to lead decades of their lives in jail, writes Lucy Kenningham

  • UK Election: Criminal justice system at the point of no return. Where is the outrage? 

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    The British criminal justice system is nearing collapse, plagued by backlogs, overcrowded prisons, budget cuts, and barrister strikes

  • Court delays return as emergency measures are deployed to stem prison overcrowding

    COURTS

    The legal sector was thrown into a state of chaos and confusion this morning after the government deployed emergency measures to delay court cases in response to prison and police cell overcrowding. 

    New figures published by the Ministry of Justice in March showed that the magistrates’ court backlog stood at 370,731 cases in December, up seven percent on the previous quarter.
  • Our prison system is an economic and moral failure

    April 18, 2024

    Few politicians want to talk about prisons. They should be braver

  • Sexually explicit ‘deepfakes’ to become a criminal offence

    April 16, 2024

    This comes after the Government made reforms in the Online Safety Act last year to criminalise the sharing of ‘deepfake’ intimate images for the first time.

  • Court backlog crisis deepens as Law Society pleads for ‘increased and sustained’ funding

    March 28, 2024

    The Law Society also outlined that the magistrates’ court backlog had gone up by seven per cent also. to 370,731.

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