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Charles III will deliver the first King’s Speech for 70 years in Parliament today.

The UK imprisons more people than most of its western European neighbours and the conditions in its prisons are getting worse.

The primary objective of this proposal is to introduce a comprehensive system of prison electronic tags for inmates awaiting trial. 

Imperative for implementation of prison electronic tags for inmates awaiting trial in Correctional Centres in Nigeria, by Olukayode Ajulo.

LONDON: The UK government on Monday announced a raft of measures, including the early deportation of foreign...

Prison sentences of less than a year will be scrapped for most criminals under government plans to tackle the prison overcrowding crisis.

Briefing Parliament on its annual report on Thursday, the Judicial Inspectorate of Prisons (JICS) noted that the year in review also recorded the highest number of remand detainees ever in the past decade.

The judge emphasized that their "greatest concern" revolved around defendants convicted of rape being allowed to remain on bail rather than being swiftly jailed.

Criminals could get more than a third off their prison sentences by pleading guilty under plans being considered by ministers to tackle the court backlog and prison crisis.

Of the 122 establishments in England and Wales, 61 percent were found to be overcrowded when inspected in June.