Ijaah Shawn Murray avoided a custodial sentence when he appeared in the dock at Poole Magistrates’ Court. Murray, 27, of Churchill Road, Bournemouth, was convicted of three counts of assaulting an emergency worker by beating. The offences were committed at HMP Rochester in Kent. At the court hearing the defendant received a 12-month community order, […]
The government’s pledge to force murderers to appear in court for sentencing is in doubt after Rishi Sunak failed to commit himself to making the change before the next election. Ministers said this year that they would change the law so that killers who refused to attend sentencing hearings in person would be compelled to […]
Legislation which had the effect of increasing the proportion of a prison sentence that prisoners convicted of terrorist offences would have to serve before being released on licence, from the one half set by the sentencing judge to at least two thirds, did not retroactively increase the penalty imposed on them. Judgment >> Whoops! You […]
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Mark Day has been appointed as deputy director the Prison Reform Trust. Mark has made an important contribution to the work of the charity since he joined as head of policy and communications in 2010. Mark has grown an effective policy and communications team and has provided leadership to the wider organisation. As deputy, Mark […]
A “jealous” and “resentful” police officer who invented a “web of lies” about her former-sergeant boyfriend abusing her has been spared prison. PC Amanda Aston, 44, reported Matthew Taylor for controlling and coercive behaviour after their eight-month relationship broke down in 2017. Mr Taylor was charged with domestic abuse and imprisoned in March 2018 for […]
A new report has found that prison service rules for managing those women and child prisoners who pose the greatest risk of harm to the public are, far from supporting their rehabilitation and reduction of risk, in many cases actively preventing it. The Report into Restricted status children and prisoners held in women’s establishments found a number […]
By Dr Laura Janes, a consultant solicitor, Board member of the Legal Aid Practitioners’ Group and a lecturer at London South Bank University Take a Look >> Whoops! You need enhanced membership to access this page – login below or join now https://prisons.org.uk/register/enhanced
The number of cases in which the Secretary of State for Justice (“SSJ”) refused recommendations by the Parole Board for a prisoner’s transfer to open conditions has increased dramatically over the last 12 months; whereas prior to June 2022, the SSJ accepted the vast majority of recommendations, he has only accepted a small minority of […]
Rolf Harris, the disgraced Australian entertainer who was convicted of sexually assaulting four girls, has died aged 93. He died of neck cancer and frailty of old age on May 10 at his home in Bray, Berkshire, the day a private ambulance was seen in his driveway, before being cremated without public notice. Harris worked […]
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