Justice Secretary David Lammy announced that chemical suppressants for sex offenders will be trialled in north west and north ...

In a blistering attack, prisons minister James Timpson warned that 'papier-mache' jails would be 'unsafe for staff and the ...

Prisons minister James Timpson has told the BBC more criminals could be tagged in future instead of being sent to prison - but insists he's not "soft on crime". More than 30 companies, including ...

David Lammy said the trial in south-west England had been "positive" and the controversial medication limits "problematic ...

No chance.” Not even the saintly Timpson, the shoe repair company that famously employs ex-offenders, touch those with sexual offence histories. James Timpson, who is now the prisons minister, says it ...

Peers have demanded answers over the government’s refusal to resentence prisoners trapped under “no hope” indefinite jail terms, insisting: “It is not right and it is not fair.” In an impassioned ...

The very judges who handed out “unfair” indefinite prison sentences have joined The Independent’s campaign to resentence thousands of offenders who are still trapped by a law that was abolished in ...

Justice Secretary David Lammy said the trial in south-west England had been 'positive' and the controversial medication ...