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Thousands of sex offenders may be given drugs to curb their vile urges while behind bars, it has been revealed.

Sex offenders and violent criminals are set to face new GPS-powered “restriction zones” confined to areas within a "few miles" upon their release from prison.

Nearly 350 cells at Britain’s most expensive new prison sit unused despite the UK facing a severe capacity crisis.

Prime Minister Andy Burnham is ’exploring every option’ to block the early release of PC Andrew Harper’s killers, according to reports.

On Monday, Andy Burnham announced that rapists and child sex offenders will be exempt from the upcoming changes to prison sentences.

Reoffending has hit a record high following the release of more than 70,000 convicted criminals under Labour’s scheme to combat jail overcrowding.

Southport killer Axel Rudakabana has been transferred to Broadmoor secure hospital, the Ministry of Justice has said.

Two “experienced and talented hackers” forced Transport for London (TfL) to “pull the plug” on its systems at a cost of £29 million, a court has heard.

Iraq’s Prime Minister Ali Al-Zaidi announced Sunday that citizens who report assets and public funds obtained through corruption will receive “substantial financial rewards.”

Following the High Anti-Corruption Court’s decision to confiscate the Ukrainian assets of sanctioned Russian oligarch Myron Horilovskyi, publications dedicated to the case began to disappear from the internet.

Within one year, seven men died at the ‘squalid’ and ‘inhumane’ prison.

Shadow home secretary Chris Philp has vowed to abolish immigration tribunals as part of plans to be announced by the Conservatives.

The $6.7 million fine ASB has agreed to pay for insufficiently vetting billions of dollars of transactions for money laundering is putting the spotlight on the law in New Zealand.

The backlog of asylum appeal cases has reached a new record high, according to Ministry of Justice figures.

Thousands of prison cell windows will be fitted with steel grilles to stop drones from flooding jails with drugs, weapons, and phones, the Government has announced.

Prison officers are “lambs to the slaughter” going into UK jails that are actually run by veteran inmates, an ex-prison governor has warned.

Parents and guardians could face jail time if their children break the law, David Lammy has revealed, as the government unveiled a "long overdue" shake-up of the youth justice system.

The manhunt for the wrongly-released sex offender at the center of the Epping asylum hotel protests cost taxpayers more than £150,000, a review has found.

There are concerns that hundreds more inmates and staff may have been exposed to hazardous levels of cancer-causing gas, with the Ministry of Justice now investigating 42 prison and probation sites, The Independent can reveal.

Data from the Ministry of Justice indicate that there were 80,203 outstanding cases at the end of last year, which is an 8% increase from the 74,106 recorded in the previous 12 months.

Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith says he is closely watching the UK’s plan to scrap jury trials for offences carrying sentences of less than three years, a key change the New Zealand Government is also considering to help speed up court processes.

David Lammy has been accused of misrepresenting rape figures by senior barristers in a bid to fast track the abolition of some jury trials.

Justice Secretary David Lammy is preparing major criminal-justice reforms that would reserve jury trials for only the most serious offences — including rape, murder and manslaughter — according to multiple media reports.