Would you give a criminal a second chance?

With the prison system under strain, low-risk offenders could be serving time working in Iceland instead of sitting in a cell – but not everyone’s convinced it’s a good idea. So we ask…

Over her decade as a prison officer, Alex South worked with some extraordinary colleagues, and saw what prisons at their best are like. She also saw the bad side – illicit affairs, violence, squalid conditions – getting gradually worse

As a sentencing review proposes ways to tackle the prison population, Closer looks at what it might mean for women who have often been coerced into crime

£50 Star letter Ulrika’s Year of Sobriety Opening ...

Nobody wants a brothel on their doorstep, but recognising prostitution as work could protect women, says Michelle Hather

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