-/FAMILY HANDOUT/AFP A British couple detained in Iran for seven months on espionage charges have been moved to separate prisons in and near Tehran, heightening fears for their welfare, their son told ...

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 ...

One of Britain’s worst rapists, who is feared to have attacked 90 women, sometimes at knife-point, could be released from ...

Nigel Farage ’s party also wants Clause 1 of the Sentencing Bill – which introduces a presumption to suspend short custodial ...

But for several reasons, the UK has struggled to do this. In 2006, it was revealed that some 1,013 foreign national prisoners ...