Opinion

Voices: Britain’s prison crisis is driven by sentence inflation, not crime

Britain’s prison overcrowding crisis is driven by sentence inflation, not crime - COMMENT: Tougher sentencing has filled Britain’s prisons – but it has not made the country safer. The driver for the ...
Yahoo

Britain's first all-female prison stood in Surrey

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Woking Female Convict Prison opened in 1869 [Woking History Society] Britain's first purpose built women's prison once stood on ...

Inmates routinely carry weapons in Britain’s worst prison

Prisoners in one of Britain’s worst jails are routinely making and carrying weapons, a watchdog has revealed. Charlie Taylor, ...
The New York Times

Ian Huntley, Whose Murder of Schoolgirls Appalled Britain, Dies After Prison Attack

The 2002 deaths of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, and the manhunt that led to a local school caretaker, shook the U.K. By Isabella Kwai Reporting from London Ian Huntley, a British man convicted of ...