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Survivors of violent crime and families of victims have criticised the UK government for announcing “world first” plans to introduce restriction zones for serious offenders freed…

Catastrophic errors left a persistent and proven sex offender free before he murdered two women in London, it can be revealed.On Friday, an Old Bailey jury…

Police and the prisons ombudsman are investigating the death of a 16-year-old boy who was being held at a young offender institution in south-west London.The boy…

An attempt to halt the use of pepper spray on children held in young offender institutions (YOIs) has failed after the high court ruled on Monday…

A man who worked as a prison officer and caterer in a youth detention centre was able to rape and torture boys for three decades while…

Mistakenly released prisoner Brahim Kaddour-Cherif arrested in Islington, say Met policeBrahim Kaddour-Cherif, the 24-year-old Algerian sex offender accidentally released from HMP Wandsworth, has been arrested in…

Ministers were warned by a watchdog that prisoners were “falling through the cracks” of chaotic release procedures at the jail that mistakenly freed a convicted child…

Police searching in London for a former asylum seeker and convicted sex offender who was released from prison in error have urged him to hand himself…