Staff in Andy Burnham's team are said to be looking into how to ban child sex offenders from the early release prison scheme ...

Police are preparing for a surge in crime that could see hundreds of thousands more offences committed in just one year, if Government prison sentence reforms go ahead. Plans proposed under the ...

The First Step Act represented one of the most significant federal prison reform efforts in decades. Passed with bipartisan support in 2018, the law was intended to reduce recidivism, expand ...

Twelve thousand inmates are eligible for release from federal prisons due to reforms of sentencing laws for crack cocaine. Cocaine is illegal in all its forms but, in federal sentencing law, there's a ...

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ALBANY, N.Y. — Gov. Kathy Hochul signed the Jail and Prison Oversight Omnibus Bill Friday, which seeks to reform prisons across the state. The reforms in the bill include more cameras in prisons, ...