The litany of recent errors coincides with the ruling Labour Party battling its own economic constraints and record-setting ...
Almost four out of 10 inmates surveyed by His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons said it is easy to access drugs. Some prisons ...
Mistaken releases, where a prisoner had no intent of escaping, have surged at prisons in England and Wales, to 262 in 2024-25 (see chart). This is more than double the number of the previous year, and ...
A search is continuing in the U.K. for one of two men who were mistakenly released from prison, part of a growing trend that ...
Britain's justice minister said on Thursday that a spike in prisoners being wrongly released from jail was unacceptable, as ...
The Algerian sex offender mistakenly released from Britain’s Wandsworth prison in October 2025 was a migrant who had ...
One of two inmates mistakenly released from a London prison has surrendered. Billy Smith returned to HMP Wandsworth on ...