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The Rt Hon Shabana Mahmood MP and Amy Rees CB spoke in a briefing at Downing Street about the extent of the prison capacity crisis and plans to counter it.
Reports of bullying and harassment are 鈥渁 wake-up call and an opportunity to change鈥�, Lord Timpson said today (6 May), after a review recommended wholesale change to how HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) deals with com鈥�
The first prisoners have been locked up at a new jail that will create nearly 1,500 prison places, helping to cut crime and make streets safer today as part of the Government鈥檚 Plan for Change (23 April).
His Majesty's Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) has today (4 April) launched the Future Prison Leaders Programme to recruit and train the next generation of prison leaders.
鈥淧ublic safety must never be put at risk again by the failure to have enough prison places鈥�, Lord Chancellor Shabana Mahmood said as she opened a new nearly 1,500-place prison in Yorkshire.
More dangerous criminals will be taken off the streets thanks to a 700-place expansion which will turn a Suffolk jail into the UK鈥檚 largest public sector prison.
Vulnerable girls sentenced to youth custody will no longer be placed in Young Offender Institutions (YOIs)
Foreign national offenders (FNOs) will be deported quicker thanks to a new 拢5 million government investment in prisons across England and Wales.
Correspondence from PSPRB Chair to the Minister of State for Justice relating to 2025-26 remit letter and timetable.
Susannah Hancock will carry out an independent review of the placement of girls in the children and young people鈥檚 secure estate.
Around 1,800 rehabilitated offenders still under indefinite probation oversight for abolished Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentences, years after completing their prison terms, will have this supervision lifted t鈥�
Public safety will be at the heart of an independent review into sentencing, as the government pledges to end the crisis in our prisons.
A temporary measure to manage pressures in prisons in the north of England has been reactivated, following longstanding capacity failures and recent outbreaks of far-right disorder.
In a major speech at HMP Five Wells, the Rt Hon Shabana Mahmood KC MP set out measures to protect the public by preventing prisons from running out of places.
Lord Chancellor Shabana Mahmood has set out how the government will stop the impending collapse of the criminal justice system.
Prisoners who break the rules while behind bars face new community payback-style punishments like repair work and litter picking, under tough prison rules to be set out this week.
First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government
More female offenders than ever recorded before are in work 6 months after their release from prison as a direct result of government action 鈥� cutting crime and keeping the public safe.
Offenders in Wales with low-level mental health issues will be required to address them as part of a government scheme to tackle a major root cause of crime.
Mitie Care & Custody has been awarded the contract to operate HMP Millsike, the UK鈥檚 first all-electric prison that will provide around 1,500 places.鈥�
Correspondence between PSPRB Chair and Minister of State for Justice relating to 2024 round remit letter and timetable.
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