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- Mon, 10 Nov 2025 18:54:59 +0000: AI chatbots could help stop prisoner release errors, says justice minister - Prisons and probation | The Guardian
HMP Wandsworth gets ‘green light’ to use AI after team sent in to find ‘quick fixes’ after spate of mistakes
Artificial intelligence chatbots could be used to stop prisoners from being mistakenly released from jail, a justice minister told the House of Lords on Monday.
James Timpson said HMP Wandsworth had been given the green light to use AI after a specialised team was sent in to find “some quick fixes”.
Continue reading... - Mon, 10 Nov 2025 17:16:58 +0000: Reeves suggests two-child benefit cap will fully go, saying children in big families should not be ‘penalised’ – as it happened - Prisons and probation | The Guardian
Chancellor interviewed on Radio 5 Live and says it’s unfair to penalise children in bigger families. This live blog is closed
Farage said the problems facing small businesses were not a failure of capitalism.
Some will tell you, well, the economy is failing because capitalism is failing.
No, we’re not living in capitalism. We’re living in an age of global corporatism.
The other great betrayal is that is every one of these millions of businesses, every one of these 5.6 million businesses, believed that, with Brexit, the regulatory burden on their shoulders would become less.
I can tell you, a decade on, almost from the referendum, in every single industry, from financial services to fisheries, the burden of regulation and the threat of the regulator is worse now than it was then.
Continue reading... - Sun, 09 Nov 2025 12:42:46 +0000: King Charles and senior politicians lead UK Remembrance Sunday service at Cenotaph – as it happened - Prisons and probation | The Guardian
Two-minute silence held at 11am GMT, with commemorations also taking place across the UK, including in Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast
The Prince of Wales, dressed in Royal Air Force uniform in the rank of Wing Commander, saluted after laying his wreath at the Cenotaph.
He was followed by the Duke of Edinburgh, with wreaths also laid on behalf of the Duke of Kent and the Princess Royal.
Continue reading... - Sat, 08 Nov 2025 08:00:06 +0000: Jailed UK climate protesters facing conditions reserved for extremists on release - Prisons and probation | The Guardian
Exclusive: Just Stop Oil activist was banned from attending gatherings, including meeting a friend in a cafe, without permission
Environmental protesters are being given licence conditions on release from jail that are supposed to be limited to extremism cases.
Ella Ward, 22, was banned from going to any meetings or gatherings, except for worship, without permission from her probation officer, although the Ministry of Justice dropped the condition after she brought a legal challenge.
Continue reading... - Fri, 07 Nov 2025 19:59:59 +0000: Sex offender freed from Wandsworth prison by mistake is back in custody - Prisons and probation | The Guardian
Brahim Kaddour-Cherif, who was accidentally released on 29 October, arrested in north London on Friday
A convicted sex offender who was released from prison by mistake a week ago is back in custody.
Brahim Kaddour-Cherif, 24, from Algeria, was accidentally freed on 29 October from Wandsworth prison in south London. He was arrested in Finsbury Park, north London, on Friday after police said they had received a call from a member of the public.
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