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Sentencing

March 2025

  • Keir Starmer on a visit to a fabric manufacturer in Holmfirth, northern England.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Starmer ‘disappointed’ Sentencing Council won’t change guidelines that have prompted fears of two tier justice – as it happened

  • Keir Starmer

    No 10 happy to dip its toe into culture wars in row with Sentencing Council

  • A young person in a corridor in prison wearing jogging bottoms and trainers

    Keir Starmer says all options on table in ‘two-tier’ row with Sentencing Council

  • David Lammy in Canada for the G7 meeting.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    David Lammy says G7 considering further moves to pressure Russia into agreeing Ukraine ceasefire – as it happened

  • Amid all the noise about the UK’s ‘two-tier’ justice system, there is silence on class

    Kenan Malik

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Calls to close RAF Wethersfield asylum centre after high court rules vulnerable migrants put there unlawfully – as it happened

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    UK politics: UK expels Russian diplomat and says Moscow is seeking closure of British embassy in city – as it happened

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    UK politics: MPs highlight ITN’s use of NDAs in employment rights debate – as it happened

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    UK politics: Starmer facing Reform UK byelection challenge as Mike Amesbury quits as MP – as it happened

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Starmer says it would be ‘big mistake’ to think Ukraine no longer needs military support because peace deal inevitable – as it happened

  • Mahmood to review Sentencing Council’s powers amid ‘two-tier’ justice row

  • Ministers criticise ‘two-tier’ sentencing changes in England and Wales

  • Pregnant offenders in England and Wales could be spared jail under new guidelines

February 2025

  • Prisoners look towards a window in a cell in a wing of Norwich Prison

    Prison system crisis due to overreliance on long sentences, says Gauke review

    Successive governments’ ‘penal populism’ has driven England and Wales justice system to brink of collapse, report finds

January 2025

  • Caroline Lucas

    Five years in prison for nonviolent protest: it’s plain wrong, and Keir Starmer knows it

    Caroline Lucas
    If the courts let 16 climate activists’ draconian sentences stand this week, we are no better than an authoritarian state, says environmental activist and former Green MP Caroline Lucas
  • Gaie Delap

    Brief letters
    Birthday greetings to veteran activist Gaie Delap

    Brief letters: Inhumane jailing | Bradford playwrights | Sleeping apart | Electric boilers | Elon Musk
  • Matthew Booth

    The IPP scandal
    Man on the run after being recalled to UK prison indefinitely makes plea to minister

    Matthew Booth, from Bolton, is facing further time in jail after claims he has restarted a relationship with an ex

December 2024

  • Artwork by Yann Kebbi

    The Audio Long Read
    Best of 2024: As a teenager, John was jailed for assaulting someone and stealing their bike. That was 17 years ago – will he ever be released? – podcast

    From June: Indeterminate sentences are devastating to mental health, but prisoners with mental illness are less likely to be released. The result is a vicious cycle whereby the most vulnerable inmates often have the least chance of getting out – as John’s case shows. By Sophie Atkinson
  • A prison officer walks along a landing in a prison with netting between the floors

    Murderers who use strangulation or kill ex-partners face longer jail terms

    New laws to be introduced in England and Wales in attempt to reduce violence against women and girls
  • A prison officer at HMP/YOI Portland, a resettlement prison with a capacity for 530 prisoners

    Prison population in England and Wales set to exceed 100,000 by 2029

    Rising prosecutions, higher maximum sentences and soaring number of people on remand driving growth from 86,000 today
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