Emergency measures have been introduced by the Justice Secretary in order to prevent the prisons system from reaching full capacity by November. Shabana Mahmood introduced plans on Wednesday to ...

The drugs crisis in English and Welsh prisons has reached “endemic” levels, “fostering a dangerous culture of acceptance that must be broken”, said the House of Commons Justice Committee. The prison ...

A British government minister says she’s "not squeamish" about the idea of chemical castration for male sex offenders, and wants to make it mandatory. The UK is considering a range of options from a ...

In the early 1990s, while working at the Maudsley Hospital in London, clinical and forensic psychologist Susan Young began to notice a troubling trend. Young people diagnosed with conditions such as ...