Frances Crook believes ‘politicians are still stuck in the 1950s’ when it comes to our criminal justice system. For 35 years, she has been at the helm of the Howard League for Penal Reform, trying to ...

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The House of Commons voted to create statutory immunity from prosecution for women who terminate their pregnancies, fundamentally altering the criminal law framework that has governed abortion in ...

A prison in Nottinghamshire has been given ‘the worst possible score’ on safety in its latest inspection by the prisons watchdog. An inspection report on HMP Lowdham Grange has revealed critical ...

A national audit into ‘group-based child sexual exploitation and abuse’, commonly referred to as ‘grooming gangs,’ has found victims were blamed, disbelieved, or dismissed by the very authorities ...

A roll-call of miscarriages of justice representing ‘nearly 100 years of people’s lives lost to prison’ was read out at the launch of a three-year inquiry exposing forensic science failures. Professor ...

A three-year inquiry set up by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Miscarriages of Justice into forensics has concluded that the sector is in a ‘graveyard spiral’ leading to poor police ...

Victims of rape and serious sexual assault in the West Midlands will soon have the right to request a review of evidence before a decision is made by prosecutors to drop the case. This six-month ...

A new law in the state of Georgia will see those who have been wrongfully convicted eligible for compensation for their ordeal through a standardised legal process. The state becomes the 39th in the ...

Following a trainwreck meeting with the Criminal Cases Review Commission’s leadership team last month, the House of Commons’ justice committee has called upon the watchdog’s chief exec to go. The ...

MPs have called on the Criminal Cases Review Commission’s chief exec to go as part of ‘root and branch reform’ required to fix the troubled watchdog body which presently has no chair. The House of ...

Jon is editor of the Justice Gap. He is a criminology lecturer at Brighton University and vice chair of the Legal Action Group. Books include Justice in a Time of Austerity (Bristol University Press, ...