WORK has begun on a new 1,700-place prison in Leicestershire to try to deal with the growing prison population crisis. The construction of HMP Welland Oaks is a major milestone in the Government’s Plan for Change to create 14,000 additional prison places by 2031. Once completed, it will add to the 2,600 places already opened since July 2024 – ensuring there are always enough spaces to lock up offenders. The prison estate increased by less than 500 places in the fourteen years to April 2024....

The Remuneration of the Police Federation CEO Mukund Krishna should be revealed in its long-awaited accounts for 2023 this month, the organisation has exclusively told UK News and Investigations today (November 6 2025). A federation spokesperson confirmed this after we asked why we were wrongly told the information and accounts would be published by the end of the summer in a Freedom of Information Act response - a legal process. The spokesperson said: "We can confirm the accounts are...

THOUSANDS of suspects and criminals who would have been remanded or jailed will instead be "free in the community" after a new "Sentencing Bill" comes into effect next year, a police chief said. More prisoners will also be released early under the changes to free up prison spaces due to our bursting prison population. There will be an expected rise in reoffending rates by four to six percent, police chiefs estimate, that is around 360,000 more crimes a year on top of the 6.6 million offences...