Barrister Steven Barrett has declared he is "embarrassed for his country" after jailed mother Lucy Connolly had her 31-month ...

These include using fewer and shorter prison sentences, enhanced opportunities for early release based on good behaviour, and more use of community sentences. The government has already accepted ...

Campaigners have hit out at the "short-sighted" decision not to include prisoners on indefinite sentences in the plans to reduce the prison population. On Thursday, the government published its ...

I’m mentioning all this not just because “-uh” is a curiosity in its own right but also because it says a lot about a ...

These include using fewer and shorter prison sentences, enhanced opportunities for early release based on good behaviour, and more use of community sentences. The government has already accepted most ...

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A Florida state judge on Tuesday denied a request from the father of NFL rookie Travis Hunter to modify the father’s criminal sentence, saying it would look like “special treatment” if he ...

Appearing for the appellants, who also include Michael Caesar known “Capone” and Clebert Reece known as “Chi Chi” who are appealing their sentences since they had pleaded guilty and had ...

A 40-year-old man whose bomb threat aboard a Seattle-bound flight forced the plane to land at the Spokane International Airport was sentenced to nearly two years in federal prison, according to ...

Crown prosecutors are not “playing their part” in stopping courts giving unduly lenient sentences for knife crime, Robert Jenrick has claimed. The shadow justice secretary wrote to Stephen ...

Lawyers acting for a teen who bashed his mother’s head in with a 10kg dumbbell say he shouldn’t have received a sentence of life imprisonment. Instead, Jordan Taylor’s lawyers have today ...