Male Criminals to Be Kept in Female Jails Under Burnham's Prison Overcrowding Plan

Andy Burnham tackles prison crisis by moving men to women prisons

Some male prisoners will be housed in women’s prisons as part of UK prime minister Andy Burnham’s plan to tackle prison overcrowding.

IPP sentences under review as Burnham tackles overstretched prison system

"A long running injustice". That's how Andy Burnham described IPPs - or 'imprisonment for public protection' sentences.

UK PM Burnham Plans to Put Male Criminals in Women’s Prisons to Ease Overcrowding.

British Prime Minister Andy Burnham has outlined a new plan to address critical overcrowding in prisons, which includes placing male criminals in women’s prisons.PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: British Prime Minister Andy Burnham proposed putting male inmates in female prisons on Tuesday, to ease Britain’s prison overcrowding crisis. KEY QUOTE: “It will be based on a range of options including the three strands of further work I asked him to initiat…

Male criminals to be kept in female jails under Burnham's prison overcrowding plan

The Prime Minister stressed that some criminals will have to be let out of jail early to prevent the ‘prison system collapsing’

Burnham vows to resolve ‘long-running injustice’ of indefinite prison sentences

Addressing the scandal of Imprisonment for Public Protection jail terms could free up thousands of prison spaces

Urgent call for PM end the hidden injustice in British prisons

Exclusive: As judges begin to overturn indefinite jail terms handed to children and young people – and hundreds more cases are being reviewed – Vera Baird, chair of the miscarriages of justice watchdog, demands that Andy Burnham take ‘wholesale’ action to address the scandal. Amy-Clare Martin reports