“Hundreds of dangerous prisoners given indeterminate sentences could be freed from jail after a court ruled yesterday that holding them longer than their minimum sentence was unlawful.”
The Times, 1st August 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The Government’s problems in handling the crisis in the prison system were compounded today when the High Court ruled that the detention of prisoners with no facilities to assess their suitability for release was ‘arbitrary, unreasonable and unlawful’.”
The Independent, 31st July 2007
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“High court judges yesterday dealt a fresh blow to the government’s handling of the prison crisis when they ruled that inmates serving new “open-ended” sentences had unlawfully been left in overcrowded local prisons without access to the compulsory rehabilitation programmes they need to secure their release.”
The Guardian,
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A former British National party candidate who stockpiled explosive chemicals and ball bearings in anticipation of a future civil war was today jailed for two and a half years.”
The Guardian, 31st July 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Thousands of prisoners serving short-term indefinite sentences may have to be set free if a High Court ruling against the new Justice Secretary is upheld on appeal. ”
Daily Telegraph, 31st July 2007
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A 17-year-old girl and her boyfriend were jailed yesterday for torturing a friend with severe learning difficulties before forcing him to fall to his death from a 100ft railway viaduct.”
The Guardian, 31st July 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The government’s handling of the introduction of indeterminate jail sentences is to be challenged in court.”
BBC News, 31st July 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Three men have been jailed for beating a homeless man to death in a ‘happy slapping’ incident.”
BBC News, 27th July 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A university tutor who taught students about computer security and identity theft has been jailed for two years for identity fraud offences.”
BBC News, 26th July 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Four students and a schoolboy who planned to fight British soldiers and die as martyrs have been sentenced by a court at the Old Bailey.”
BBC News, 26th July 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A teenager has been sentenced to at least 13 years in prison for the murder of the promising young footballer Kiyan Prince, who was stabbed to death outside his school gates.”
The Guardian, 26th July 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Former Lord Chancellor Lord Falconer was ‘too slow’ to defend a judge after government criticism of his sentencing of a Cardiff paedophile, peers say.”
BBC News, 26th July 2007
Source: news.bbc.co.uk
“Following a review of its own guideline on reduction in sentence for a guilty plea, the Sentencing Guidelines Council has recommended a change to the application of the principle when the evidence against offenders is overwhelming.”
Sentencing Guidelines Council press release, 20th July 2007
Source: www.sentencing-guidelines.gov.uk
Related link: Reduction in sentence for a guilty plea (PDF)
“Criminals who plead guilty after being caught red-handed will receive longer sentences under new guidelines announced yesterday.”
Daily Telegraph, 23rd July 2007
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The father and uncle of a young Kurdish woman began life sentences last night for arranging her ‘barbaric and callous’ murder to restore their family’s ‘honour’.”
The Guardian, 21st July 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Attorney General will appeal against the sentence given to a window cleaner for raping a 10-year-old girl on the grounds it was unduly lenient.”
BBC News, 20th July 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Criminals who plead guilty in the face of overwhelming evidence – such as being caught in the act – will get less time off their sentence, it was announced today.”
The Times, 20th July 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“An economics graduate was sentenced to 160 hours of community service yesterday for making ‘sick jokes’ about ethnic groups and people with disabilities on a website.”
Daily Telegraph, 17th July 2007
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The police are already hunting for 18 prisoners who are ‘unlawfully at large’ after being released among the 1,700 let out during the first week of the government’s new emergency scheme to cope with jail overcrowding, the justice ministry said yesterday.”
The Guardian, 17th July 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Criminals released early from prison because of an overcrowding crisis committed eight more offences within days of being freed, the Ministry of Justice said.”
The Independent, 17th July 2007
Source: www.independent.co.uk
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