Young people and race in the criminal justice system

Police funding in England and Wales

What do we know about the ethnicity of people involved in sexual offences against children?

Prisons

Are our prisons "filling up with foreigners"?

The number of frontline prison officers is falling

Does re-offending cost £13 billion a year?

Fewer prison officers in England and Wales

Debates

The Police

29th Mar 2017

Police funding: up or down?

Are police budgets being cut? It depends which source of funding you count.

3rd Mar 2017

How many police forces are rated good or outstanding?

13th Mar 2017

How many suspects are wanted by police?

The state of prisons

27th Jan 2017

Record self-inflicted deaths in prisons

It's correct that the latest figures show a record level of self-inflicted deaths in English and Welsh prisons in 2016.

19th Aug 2016

Reporting sexual offences in schools: an incomplete picture

29th Jan 2015

Men accused of rape don't have to "prove that a woman said Yes"

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