“Justice Secretary Jack Straw today announced new plans on prison capacity and the management of both prisons and probation, better to protect the public and further reduce reoffending.”
Ministry of Justice, 27th April 2009
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“Two Probation Areas have been given the green light to start work as Probation Trusts from today as part of the government’s drive to further reduce reoffending and increase protection for the public.”
Ministry of Justice, 1st April 2009
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“An attempt to introduce a computer system for the prison and probation services that was abandoned after three years, after it had already cost £155m in public money, was last night labelled ‘a masterclass in sloppy project management’.”
The Guardian, 12th March 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Hundreds of thousands of extra crimes could be committed because of plans to cut the number of officers monitoring dangerous offenders, probation staff have warned.”
Daily Telegraph, 8th March 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“In order to ensure that an officer of the Service or a Welsh family proceedings officer would not be in contempt of court by virtue of disclosing information to an officer of the National Probation Service when a request was made under s 11L(5) or s 11M of the Children Act 1989 the court should give leave to the officer to make such disclosure.”
WLR Daily, 7th November 2008
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
“Between April 2006 and April this year, offenders serving community sentences and suspended sentences were convicted of a total of 121 murders.”
Daily Telegraph, 30th October 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A consultation setting out proposed priorities for the delivery of prison and probation services in the capital and the joint work between agencies to reduce reoffending.”
Ministry of Justice, 8th October 2008
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“A report has found that the paperwork obsession among police, probation officers and court officials lets criminals and suspects who go on the run stay out of the reach of justice.”
Daily Telegraph, 1st August 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The justice reinvestment inquiry has been set up to examine whether the resources currently given to the criminal justice system are being used effectively or whether there are alternative strategies which would give a better return for society than traditional methods of dealing with offenders.”
Youth Justice Board, 4th July 2008
Source: www.yjb.gov.uk
“Thousands of criminals are not completing their sentences properly because of funding cuts at the Probation Service, a new report warns.”
Daily Telegraph, 24th April 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A lawyer who stabbed his wife to death after she told him she was leaving him has been released after serving less than half of his sentence.”
BBC News, 7th April 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Offenders who are ordered by the courts to undergo sex offender treatment courses or domestic violence programmes are having to wait up to a year because of a crisis in resources, a probation union survey reveals today.”
The Guardian, 17th March 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Long-term prisoners who had been convicted of offences committed after 29 September 1998 and before 4 April 2005, and who after 4 April 2005 had been released on licence, recalled and then re-released having served three-quarters of their sentences, remained subject to licence conditions for the remainder of their sentences.”
WLR Daily, 12th March 2008
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
“An urgent cash injection of £40m to promote the use of alternatives to short prison sentences was announced yesterday by the justice minister David Hanson in the face of a prison population which stands at record levels of nearly 82,000.”
The Guardian, 12th March 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Justice Minister David Hanson has made a written ministerial statement on investing in community sentences.”
Ministry of Justice, 11th March 2008
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“Jack Straw has given a speech to the Guardian Criminal Justice Summit on prisons, probation and the press.”
Ministry of Justice, 10th March 2008
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“Jack Straw, the Secretary of State for Justice, is to unveil plans to merge the prison and probation services into a US-style ‘Department of Corrections’ to try to get to grips with sentencing and the management of offenders in custody and in the community.”
The Independent, 27th January 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Public confidence in the supervision of high-risk offenders released from prison suffered a fresh blow yesterday with the disclosure that 83 have been charged with a further serious offence, such as murder or rape, in the last year.”
The Guardian, 23rd October 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“More than 80 serious offences, including murder and rape, were committed last year by violent offenders supposedly under strict community supervision.”
The Independent, 23rd October 2007
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The government’s troubled £2.6bn programme to manage convicted criminals in order to cut reoffending rates is to be scrapped within weeks, the Guardian has learned.”
The Guardian, 28th September 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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