More prisoners in the UK should go to open prisons to help reduce reoffending and avoid overcrowding, the man leading the government's sentencing review has suggested. David Gauke told the BBC's ...

The Home Office says open prisons are the "most effective" way of ensuring inmates are ready to rejoin the community before their release. But people sent to an open jail need to be risk assessed and ...

An open prison in Sussex. Picture: Alamy Mr Gauke said: "It's necessary to build open prisons, you got to locate the sites and so on, we don't have a lot of capacity here but it's certainly something ...

The UK does not “make as much use of open prisons” as it could, a former Conservative justice minister has suggested. David Gauke, who is leading the Government’s sentencing review, also ...

More convicts should be sent to open prisons to ease overcrowding, a former Tory Justice Secretary appointed by Labour to overhaul sentencing has said. David Gauke, who is leading the Government's ...

Police have begun a nationwide manhunt after three members of an organised crime gang absconded from an open prison. Jason ...

At a Welsh Affairs Committee hearing last December, Lord Timpson read a list of 17 names. They were, the prisons minister explained, “all people who went in there [to HMP Parc] to serve their ...

T he UK should "make more use of open prisons" to avoid overcrowding and reduce reoffending, the man leading the government's sentencing review has suggested.

The UK does not “make as much use of open prisons” as it could, a former Conservative justice minister has suggested. David Gauke, who is leading the Government’s sentencing review, also ...