Justice secretary’s plan includes extra recruitment but head of service queries timings, with moves to bring forward releases starting in September Keir Starmer’s government will release thousands of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thousands of prisoners are being released early, putting a strain on probation services. (PA) Thousands of prisoners are being ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The UK should send fewer people back to jail for minor probation infringements if it is to end severe ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Work by the Probation Service to keep people safe and manage risk of harm is “consistently insufficient”, an inspector has warned.

Every probation service in the UK is failing to meet minimum standards as the service buckles under the weight of record staff shortages and huge caseloads, an investigation by The House magazine has ...

Exclusive: Napo says officers do not feel protected as 2,000 offenders to be let out early to try to ease prison crisis Probation officers have been given as little as a week’s notice to prepare for ...

The head of the UK’s probation watchdog has warned the service is failing in 97 per cent of areas, even before the government releases thousands of prisoners early. Martin Jones, the chief inspector ...

Reports published Friday revealed that environmental protesters in the United Kingdom were released from prison under “licence conditions” designed for terrorist or extremist criminal offenders, ...

An ex-case worker paints a picture of public servants doing a vital (and often horrifying) job, undermined by cuts in funding and staffing Jessamy Calkin Senior Feature Writer and Editor Jessamy ...

The Transforming Rehabilitation policies introduced by the government in 2014 were supposed to “drive down the rate of reoffending and deliver better value for the taxpayer”. These aims have yet to be ...

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