Category: Sentencing
‘Prisons capacity crisis now risks becoming a public safety issue’
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Claire Waxman, Victims' Commissioner for England and Wales, said changes in policy have fuelled distress and anxiety 'raising a burning question: Is anyone truly in control of this crisis?'
Ministry of Justice to review laws that see domestic abuse victims get ‘disproportionately high’ sentences for acting in self-defence
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Dame Vera Baird and Nicole Jacobs welcome moves by the Lord Chancellor to review sentencing for women who use weapons in self-defence against their abusers