Staff at HMP Leeds restricted access during hot weather in June 2020, with shielding inmates also affectedCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coveragePrisoners were unlawfully prevented from showering daily as punishment for poor behavi…
A decade after Mark Duggan’s killing, police-community relations are at boiling point | Stafford Scott
Lessons have not been learned. I saw what sparked the Tottenham riots, and the same could happen againI can still recall the phone call on 4 August 2011, informing me that police officers had been involved in the shooting of an “armed gangster” who had…
‘There is another way’: why Timpson boss hit out at PM’s chain-gang plan
James Timpson has employed ex-prisoners since 2008 and says putting trust in people pays offFor James Timpson there is nothing charitable about employing former prisoners. The head of the high street shoe repair and locksmithing firm Timpson – which ha…
Serious questions raised by solitary confinement in prisons | Letters
Emma Ginn and Annie Viswanathan on the effect of solitary confinement on immigration detainees and Dean Kingham on prisoners abandoned to close supervision centres. Plus, Howard Thomas on steps towards sending fewer people to prisonProlonged solitary c…
Police review teen killings in search of catalyst for spike in murders
Pilot scheme hopes to discover patterns that will help prevent more deathsMeasures are being introduced to try to identify what is driving rising murder rates in the wake of a spike in teenage deaths in some of the UK’s homicide hotspots.All homicides …