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Victims and Courts Bill receives Royal Assent to become law.
Victims and bereaved families will get longer to challenge sentences they don't feel fit the crime they've suffered
Offenders posing a threat to national security to spend longer behind bars
The prison system would have collapsed entirely by summer if not for the Government’s decisive action to keep the public safe, new analysis has revealed.
New laws will end automatic release for badly behaved offenders and strengthen community punishment.
Victims going through the Crown Court better supported to recover from crime and get closure with free access to transcripts of judges’ sentencing remarks.
Whole life orders for murders connected to the police, prison or probation officer's current or former duties
More people will be tagged and monitored as part of the Government's Plan for Change as the Sentencing Bill is published.
Criminals will be barred from pubs, concerts and sports matches under new sentencing powers.
Landmark reforms that will end the prison crisis have been announced by the Lord Chancellor, Shabana Mahmood.
The government will introduce new legislation to stop Sentencing Council's guidelines coming into effect
The Lord Chancellor opened the first meeting of the Women’s Justice Board with a clear mission statement to send fewer women to prison.
Technological innovations and international prison policies are among things being studied as part of the government’s Sentencing Review.
Public safety will be at the heart of an independent review into sentencing, as the government pledges to end the crisis in our prisons.
More victims will get the justice they deserve sooner under plans to give magistrates greater sentencing powers.
Tougher sentences for cowardly killers delivered a year on from Wade Review.
First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government
Proposals for review of IPP licence termination criteria and updated HMPPS IPP Action Plan
Society’s most depraved killers will face life behind bars with no chance of being released, under tough plans announced by the Prime Minister.
Landmark reforms to better protect the public and make our streets safer come into force today (28 June).
First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
Cutting crime and building safer communities will be at the heart of new legislation unveiled in Parliament today (9 March 2021).
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