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Britain's justice secretary says that the press is in part to blame for Britain's crowded prisons and that he wishes authorities would push back against media pressure to keep locking people up.Britain has seen a doubling in the number of prisoners over the past 15 years, driven in part by tougher sentences and harsher penalties for breaching parole. Late last year, the U.K. prison population hit record highs.Ken Clarke told fellow lawmakers Wednesday that Britain's tough-on-crime popular press pushed authorities toward longer sentences, complaining that the crowded prisons made it much harder to rehabilitate prisoners or train them for life on the outside.He said the popular press was "responsible for thousands of people being in prison," adding, "Not all of them need to be there."...
LONDON -- British prisoners could be allowed to build their own jails, as the government looks for ways to slash spending to reduce the country's debt.The prison ser...
What happens in the palace stays in the palace.A new British law that took effect Wednesday makes Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Charles and Prince William exempt from f...
LONDON-- The British government Friday released a formerly secret autopsy report in an attempt to end speculation that the 2003 death of a government weapons scienti...
It's been a tense summer in the City of London as one bank after another has faced allegations of massive misbehavior.Bankers in the British capital, which has for c...
A British prisons minister is coming under fire for allowing an inmate to father a child while behind bars, according to the Daily Telegraph.Crispin Blunt allegedly ...
LONDON-- Plans are under way to allow TV cameras into some courts in England and Wales so the public can judge the judicial system's performance, British officials s...
The British government on Tuesday proposed changes in the law of defamation in England and Wales to provide greater protection for speech and publication and to disc...
A list of some of the guests who will attend the marriage of Prince William and Catherine Middleton.ROYAL FAMILYQueen Elizabeth IIPrince Philip, the Duke of Edinburg...
LONDON (AP) — Britain will introduce new rules to make it harder for its courts to arrest foreigners accused of serious human rights violations, the Ministry of Just...
A senior U.K. minister says his country's middle class still hasn't grasped just how much the government's spending cuts will hurt.In an interview published Saturday...
LONDON (AP) — Former rivals David Cameron and Nick Clegg hailed their new coalition government as the coming of a new era in British politics on Wednesday, glossing ...
A British man with “locked-in syndrome”, who can move only his head and eyes, was Tuesday pressing on with a legal test case to establish that his wife could end his...
With a stalled economy and a series of humbling policy reversals buffeting his two-year old coalition government, British Prime Minister David Cameron was preparing ...
British politicians harshly criticized the country's banking system Saturday after Barclays was fined for manipulating data, with the leader of the opposition callin...
British plans to expand the use of secret court hearings to protect intelligence shared by the United States and other allies and to extend state snooping on the Int...
LONDON -- Britain's Justice Secretary says murderers who single out disabled or transgender people as victims will face harsher sentences in the future.Ken Clarke sa...
A terrorism suspect wanted in the United States and held for almost eight years in a U.K. jail as he awaits extradition urged authorities Thursday to put him on tria...
Some of the WikiLeaks critics who cheered founder Julian Assange's arrest may want to think again.The prospect of Assange being sent to Sweden in a sex-crimes inquir...
Britain has agreed to pay hefty settlements to former Guantanamo Bay detainees who sued the government for alleged complicity in their torture — one of the first big...
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