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Magistrates handed power to jail for a year in government bid to tackle justice crisis

Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood says extending magistrates powers will help ease the prisons crisis

Evening Standard

Guards at scandal-hit Wandsworth Prison failed to notice inmate had died

HMP Wandsworth was put into special measures to tackle chronic overcrowding, rampant drug use, and violence

Evening Standard

Labour government without accurate data on courts crisis amid fears of soaring trials backlog

‘Unfathomable’ lack of accurate data on courts crisis means government ‘cannot hope’ to understand or fix it, experts tell The Independent

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UK Accidentally Releases Dozens of Prisoners by Mistake; Several Remain on the Loose

The first mass-release in a series triggered by overcrowding has left the Ministry of Justice scrambling to collect potentially dangerous offenders.

Latin Times

37 prisoners incorrectly freed from jail under government’s early release scheme

The Ministry of Justice confirmed that five prisoners have not yet been returned to jail

The Independent UK

Prisoners could be sent to Estonia as jail population in England and Wales hits new record

Ministry of Justice said to be ‘considering anything’ as number of inmates in jails in England and Wales hits new high of 88,521

Evening Standard

Scandal-hit HMP Wandsworth spending £22m fixing windows to thwart drone drug supply

The Ministry of Justice has promised a crackdown on drugs and better living conditions for inmates at HMP Wandsworth

Evening Standard

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Why have England and Wales nearly run out of prison spaces?

Fewer than 100 spaces remain in men’s prisons, reports say, and magistrates have been told to delay hearings.

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HMP Wandsworth living conditions are ‘inhumane’, finds report

Rat-infested London jail from which terror suspect escaped is unsafe and overcrowded, say independent monitors

The Guardian - UK

Operation Early Dawn: Emergency prison measures could see suspects detained unlawfully, experts warn

Solicitors ‘already alert to this risk’ as Police Federation says all officers ‘should act within the law’

The Independent UK

What is Operation Early Dawn and why has it been triggered to tackle prison overcrowding?

The emergency measure was previously triggered by the Conservative government in May in a bid to tackle overcrowding in jails

The Independent UK

Operation Early Dawn: Could urgent measures to avoid prison overcrowding be triggered in London?

Ministers have activated emergency measures to ease prison overcrowding in the north of England as more rioters are sentenced for their role in the recent unrest

Evening Standard

Emergency prison overcrowding measure activated as more rioters face jail sentences

The Government has triggered an emergency plan to avoid prison overcrowding as rioters are sentenced

Evening Standard

Prison crowding emergency measures a ‘sticking plaster’, Starmer told

Ministers activate Operation Early Dawn, so defendants can be held in police cells as more are sentenced over riots

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Evening Standard

‘Shocking’ chaos at HMP Wandsworth was ‘in plain view of leaders’, report finds

The Ministry of Justice said it was deploying extra specialist staff and redirecting £100 million to the scandal-hit prison.

The Guardian - UK

Barry Snelgrove obituary

Other lives: Probation officer who rose to be a policy adviser at the Home Office on issues relating to offenders

The Independent UK

Feltham Young Offenders Institution now the most violent prison in the country, chief inspector warns

At the high-profile jail with a population of just 84 children and young adults, 410 violent incidents were recorded in the last year

Evening Standard

Met chief Mark Rowley says Government freeing prisoners earlier to avoid 'dangerous for public' crisis

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The Independent UK

Woman arrested over Wandsworth Prison ‘inmate and officer sex video’

Video emerged appearing to show a female prison officer having sex with an inmate at HMP Wandsworth

The Guardian - UK

New statistics call into question Sunak’s claim of clearing asylum backlog

Thousands of cases refused in clearing exercise have surfaced in appeals process, with 10,000 lodged in first three months of year

The Guardian - UK

‘People should not wait two years to be tried’: inside the crown court crisis

With missing defendants, dodgy video links and crumbling walls, a typical day at Snaresbrook show why 68,125 cases are waiting to be heard in England and Wales

The Independent UK

More trauma for rape victims as court backlog doubles in two years due to lawyer shortage

Exclusive: ‘The impact on women who have been waiting so long is devastating and we are aware of at least one attempted suicide,’ lawyer says

The Guardian - UK

Police chiefs say prison crisis in England and Wales is ‘unsustainable’

Public safety said to be at risk as a result of crisis measures such as freeing convicted criminals to ease overcrowding

Evening Standard

Court delays imposed in emergency measure due to prison places crisis

Court hearings are set to be delayed and detained suspects could be set free as Operation Early Dawn triggered

The Guardian - UK

Government triggers crisis measure to ease prison overcrowding

Exclusive: Operation Safeguard confirmed by Ministry of Justice after damning report on conditions in one of UK’s biggest jails

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