Giving evidence to MPs, Mr Gauke said the government and the justice system must increase transparency so that victims ...

Long-awaited review by former Tory justice secretary David Gauke says government must stop ‘overreliance’ on jail time to tackle overcrowding ...

But the justice secretary says she rejects recommendations for earlier releases of the most serious offenders.

As justice secretary Shabana Mahmood agrees to the biggest overhaul to sentencing in a generation, Amy-Clare Martin considers whether the new approach – to refocus the system on rehabilitation and red ...

Perhaps the most significant finding is the fact that the shorter the sentence, the higher the reoffending rate. Reoffending is around 55% for prisoners sentenced to less than 12 months, compared with ...

The government will expand a small pilot scheme offering voluntary chemical castration to some sex offenders to 20 more prisons after the report said that trial should continue. Former Lord Chancellor ...

The pilot for the voluntary chemical castration of sex offenders will be extended to 20 prisons in England, the justice secretary has said. Shabana Mahmood said she would expand a small pilot in south ...

rational and evidence-led report as that on sentencing now completed by David Gauke. Mr Gauke, the justice secretary during the last period of Conservative government, and a solicitor by ...