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Drug diversion schemes cut reoffending rates more than prosecution, study says https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jun/13/drug-diversion-schemes-reoffending-rates-police #Police #UkCriminalJustice #Drugs #DrugsPolicy #Society #England #UkNews
Drug diversion schemes cut reoffending rates more than prosecution, study says

Exclusive: Research in England shows people a third less likely to reoffend under decriminalisation-style schemes

The Guardian
World news | The GuardianJun 10
Four Palestine Action protesters sentenced as terrorists would be ‘constitutional threat’ https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jun/10/four-palestine-action-protesters-terrorists-constitutional-threat #PalestineAction #Protest #UkCriminalJustice #Law #UkNews
Sentencing Palestine Action protesters as terrorists would be ‘constitutional threat’, says lawyer

Judge will decide whether four’s acts had link to terrorism, despite jury not convicting them of terrorism offence

The Guardian
World news | The GuardianJun 9
Grim reality of prison conditions laid bare in damning report https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jun/10/grim-reality-of-prison-conditions-laid-bare-in-damning-report #PrisonsAndProbation #UkCriminalJustice #Law #Society #England #Wales #KeirStarmer #ShabanaMahmood #UkNews #Politics
Grim reality of prison conditions laid bare in damning report

Inmates in England and Wales live among vermin while gangs control entire wings, monitors warn, with failures ‘at risk of becoming normalised’

The Guardian
World news | The GuardianJun 9
Lammy’s cuts to jury trials could have ‘far-reaching’ effect on race relations, say MPs https://www.theguardian.com/law/2026/jun/10/lammy-jury-trials-race-relations #UkCriminalJustice #DavidLammy #Labour #Law #UkNews #England #Wales #Politics
Lammy’s cuts to jury trials could have ‘far-reaching’ effect on race relations, say MPs

Justice secretary’s plans likely to increase black people’s suspicion of court system, committee suggests

The Guardian
World news | The GuardianJun 9
Staff at immigration detention centre wore England flags, report finds https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jun/10/staff-immigration-detention-centre-england-flags #PrisonsAndProbation #UkCriminalJustice #UkNews
Staff at immigration detention centre wore England flags, report finds

Chair of prisons and detention watchdog concerned about intimidating effect as wide-ranging and damning review published

The Guardian
World news | The GuardianJun 8
Calls to review ‘unduly lenient’ sentence for rapist in Andrew Malkinson miscarriage of justice https://www.theguardian.com/law/2026/jun/08/calls-to-review-unduly-lenient-sentence-for-rapist-in-andrew-malkinson-miscarriage-of-justice #UkCriminalJustice #Crime #UkNews #GreaterManchester #Salford #RapeAndSexualAssault
Calls to review ‘unduly lenient’ sentence for rapist in Andrew Malkinson miscarriage of justice

Paul Quinn will serve at least 14 years for the 2003 rape in Salford and could spend less time in prison than Malkinson

The Guardian
World news | The GuardianJun 5
Man jailed over 2003 Salford rape for which Andrew Malkinson was wrongly imprisoned https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jun/05/paul-quinn-jailed-2003-salford-rape-andrew-malkinson-wrongly-imprisoned #Crime #RapeAndSexualAssault #ViolenceAgainstWomenAndGirls #Salford #GreaterManchester #Police #IndependentOfficeForPoliceConduct #UkNews #NorthOfEngland #UkCriminalJustice #England #Law #Society
Man jailed over 2003 Salford rape for which Andrew Malkinson was wrongly imprisoned

Paul Quinn, 52, to serve 24 years for attack that led to one of worst miscarriages of justice in modern British history

The Guardian
World news | The GuardianJun 3
Man who murdered pregnant partner while faking livestream as alibi jailed for 31 years https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jun/03/stephen-mcullagh-jailed-natalie-mcnally-murder #NorthernIreland #Crime #UkNews #UkCriminalJustice #ViolenceAgainstWomenAndGirls
Man who murdered pregnant partner while faking livestream as alibi jailed for 31 years

Stephen McCullagh planned ‘cold-blooded and calculated’ killing of Natalie McNally in Lurgan, Northern Ireland, in great detail

The Guardian
World news | The GuardianJun 3
Electrician guilty of murdering partner and blowing up their London home https://www.theguardian.com/law/2026/jun/03/electrician-guilty-of-murdering-partner-and-blowing-up-their-london-home #UkCriminalJustice #ViolenceAgainstWomenAndGirls #Society #DomesticViolence #London #England #UkNews
Electrician guilty of murdering partner and blowing up their London home

Clifton George convicted of fatally stabbing charity worker Annabel Rook after she tried to end relationship

The Guardian
World news | The GuardianJun 2
Corrupt Liverpool prison worker jailed for smuggling drugs and sending sex texts to inmates https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jun/02/liverpool-prison-worker-helen-spree-jailed #PrisonsAndProbation #Crime #Liverpool #UkNews #UkCriminalJustice
Corrupt Liverpool prison worker jailed for smuggling drugs and sending sex texts to inmates

Helen Spree, 63, headed prison watchdog and was said to have become besotted with killer Dylan Westall, 35

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