The measure comes after more than 16,000 prisoners were released early in another Labour scheme introduced last September SIR Keir Starmer was last night accused of inviting criminals to “cause carnage” after cutting the length of time dangerous offenders spend behind bars. Cons who break strict co»»»

You can’t help feeling we are on an inexorably depressing race to the bottom. A highway to hell. Or possibly heaven for the more perverse. A mission to make people’s lives as miserable as possible. To believe the worst of everyone. All under the guise of national redemption. A country fit for the 2»»»

The Justice Secretary is to hold talks with the Sentencing Council after it rejected her demand to change guidance to judges following claims of 'two-tier' justice. The new guidance for judges to consider a criminal's ethnicity before deciding their punishment prompted Shabana Mahmood to write to t»»»