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Shabana Mahmood

July 2024

  • Shabana Mahmood visit to HMP Bedford.

    What needs to be done on probation

  • UK To Release Prisoners Early To Alleviate Overcrowding<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - JULY 12: A general view of HM Prison Wandsworth on July 12, 2024 in London, England. The country's new justice secretary, Shabana Mahmood, announced today that the government will release thousands of prisoners early to alleviate overcrowding. Under the new policy, prisoners on "standard determinate sentences" will be released after serving 40% of their sentences, rather than 50%. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

    Sunak rejected advice to release prisoners early a year ago

  • Andrew Malkinson outside the Royal Courts of Justice  flanked by supporters carrying plackards, one of which reads ‘Innocent and not the only one’

    The Observer view: Criminal Cases Review Commission needs reform and a new leader

  • Exterior view of barbed wire fencing and walls surrounding HMP Wandsworth

    About 5,500 prisoners to be released early in England and Wales

  • Yvette Cooper says ‘disgraceful scenes’ of election candidate abuse must end

  • Take it from a former prisons inspector: letting offenders out early won’t fix our broken system

    Anne Owers
  • Fears UK prisons face ‘collapse’ as they could be full before early release scheme begins

  • Justice secretary says thousands of prisoners will be released early 'to avert disaster' – video

  • Sunak and ministers are ‘guilty men’ in prisons crisis, says justice secretary

  • Starmer ‘shocked’ about prisons crisis as early release scheme prepared

May 2024

  • Keir Starmer at the launch of Scottish Labour’s general election campaign in Glasgow on Friday.

    A guide to the six main parties: what will be their campaign messages?

    Tories say stick to the plan, Labour wants change and Lib Dems, SNP, Greens and Reform fight for attention
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