Peers have demanded answers over the government’s refusal to resentence prisoners trapped under “no hope” indefinite jail terms, insisting: “It is not right and it is not fair.” In an impassioned ...

The government has been warned not to be “on the wrong side of history” as the plight of prisoners trapped under indefinite jail terms was compared to high-profile scandals involving the Post Office ...

The prisons minister has branded Nigel Farage’s plan to build prefabricated ad-hoc prisons “absolutely ridiculous”. In a blistering attack, James Timpson warned that “papier-mache” jails would be ...

The family of an ex-prison officer murdered by a former inmate have been praised in the House of Lords for "their dignified and determined" campaign for a law change aimed at deterring revenge attacks ...