Wayne Couzens, the Metropolitan Police officer who raped and murdered Sarah Everard, has admitted exposing himself at a McDonald’s drive-through just days before her abduction. Couzens pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey this afternoon to two incidents of indecent exposure at a a branch in Swanley, Kent, in February 2021, and an earlier flashing incident […]
The probation service, also known as a Probation Delivery Unit (PDU*), in Derby City has been rated as ‘Requires improvement’ following an inspection by HM Inspectorate of Probation. This inspection is one of two carried out in the Probation Service – East Midlands region recently. The second is Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland PDU, which received […]
The probation service, also known as a Probation Delivery Unit (PDU*), for Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland has been rated as ‘Inadequate’ following an inspection by HM Inspectorate of Probation – scoring just two inspection points out a possible 27. This inspection is one of two carried out in the Probation Service – East Midlands region […]
Shockingly, almost half of offenders who end up in prison have a drug problem, and around half of those treated are on heroin or other opiates. Heroin and crack cocaine addicts are responsible for about two thirds of shoplifting and 46 per cent of burglaries – terrorising our communities to feed their habits. That’s why […]
A police officer has been jailed after posing as a schoolboy to send explicit images of himself to a nine-year-old girl on Snapchat. Jason Hicks, 31, was sentenced to four years in prison after a court heard he also persuaded the victim into sending him intimate photos – and tried to do the same with […]
A Reconsideration Panel has dismissed the Justice Secretary’s challenge to a Parole Board Decision to order the release of a prisoner after an Oral Hearing. Facts: Between early 1980 and 1988 the prisoner committed a large number of extremely serious offences of rape. They were mainly committed during the course of burglaries in the victims’ […]
Thousands of prisoners are getting clean thanks to a doubling of drug-free wings in jails as the government’s war on addiction steps up a gear. thousands of prisoners join drug-free wings as war on addiction ramps up up to 100 special blocks in prisons by 2025 alongside abstinence-based units new wings and tough security to […]
New Incentivised Substance Free Living Units (ISFL) are now up and running in 45 prisons across England and Wales – getting addicts off illicit drugs and reducing their reliance on synthetic opiates like methadone. Figures show around half of prisoners are addicted to drugs, while crack and heroin addicts account for two-thirds of shoplifting offences […]
Update: 24th April 2023 The UK government has rejected a call for prisoners detained indefinitely to be resentenced, in a move criticised by the chair of the justice committee as a “missed opportunity to right a wrong”. A report by the cross-party justice committee published last year said people stuck in prison under the now abolished imprisonment […]
UPDATE: Prisons Minister Response >> The Independent Monitoring Board at HMP Pentonville have exercised their powers to write to the Justice Secretary and bring to his attention their ‘grave concerns’ for the safety of the prison. They wrote that: When Pentonville was designed in 1842 the OpCap (or then equivalent) was 520. The current OpCap […]
Transgender inmates in Scotland will initially be placed in prisons according to their gender at birth following the widespread outcry that followed a double rapist being held in a women’s jail. The policy dealing with newly convicted or remanded prisoners has been confirmed in an urgent review which also found that Isla Bryson being placed […]
The number of people killed with a knife in England and Wales has reached its highest level since records began 76 years ago. There were 282 homicides committed with a knife in the year to March 2022, a 19 per cent increase on the previous 12 months, according to the latest official figures. View the […]