Knife crimes to be tackled as two boys are arrested over stabbing two girls.As we see a rise in violence crimes across the UK, new work to crack down [...]
HMP Isis is located in Greenwich, London, within the walls of HMP Belmarsh. It is a category C training prison which holds sentenced young adults and young offenders under [...]
Who are they? Established in 1866, the Howard League for Penal Reform is a charity campaigning for important change within the justice system. The Howard League is the oldest penal reform charity in the [...]
Young black people are far more likely to be jailed than young white people, according to a new government report. The full “exploratory study” into the treatment of young people [...]
Young offenders in the UK are regularly subjected to “inhuman and degrading treatment”, according to Europe’s anti-torture committee. In a damning report, young offender institutions (YOIs) are criticised for breaching [...]
Private Prisons – G4S to Sell Youth Prison Contracts After Scandal and Poor Performance After criticism in Ofsted reports and damning exposure on Panorama, G4S have finally announced their plans [...]
