Shabana Mahmood, a senior minister in the British government, does not head up the UK’s justice system, just as Sir Hamid ...

Young offenders’ institution staff will be trained to use an incapacitating spray in cases of serious violence ...

This will only add to the perception that we have a two-tier justice system where fashionable causes are treated more leniently.' When Daniel McGuire, 45, spat on an officer in Plymouth last year ...

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The Prison Officers' Association will demand staff are given stun guns in the most dangerous jails during a meeting with the ...

Pava spray will be made available ‘in limited circumstances’ to a select number of staff at three centres holding under-18s.