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Shabana Mahmood, the justice secretary, has told MPs that magistrates are getting powers to sentence offenders for longer – to reduce the number of prisoners being held on remand and to cut the backlog in crown courts
In a statement to MPs, she said that, although this would increase the prison population slightly, by reducing the number of offenders being held on remand it would free up spaces in reception prisons where overcrowding is particularly serious.
Unless we address our remand population, we could still see a collapse of the system, not because of a lack of cells, but because we do not have those cells in the places that we need them. It is therefore crucial that we bear down on the remand population.
This government inherited a record crown court backlog. Waits for trials have grown so long that some cases are not heard for years.
The impact on victims of crime is profound. For some justice delayed is, as the old saying goes, justice denied as victims choose to withdraw from the justice process altogether rather than face the pain of a protracted legal battle.
I have made it my personal mission to constrain the Kremlin, closing the net around Putin and his mafia state using every tool at my disposal.

Studies also show that Black women have a 38% higher mortality rate from breast cancer than white women despite a slightly lower overall incidence.

Pentagon officials discuss whether the flow of assistance could be hurting the military’s ability to respond to a new conflict.

Fan was a megastar until 2018, when she was fined tens of millions of dollars over unpaid taxes and her career tanked. “Green Night” is her first film since the scandal.

Exclusive: Party drops plan for formal recognition laid out last year by David Lammy, who will visit Beijing on Friday
Labour has backtracked on plans to push for formal recognition of China’s treatment of the Uyghurs as genocide in the run-up to David Lammy’s trip to the country this weekend.
The foreign secretary is expected to arrive in Beijing on Friday for high-level meetings before travelling to Shanghai on Saturday.

The US military launched a clandestine program amid the Covid-19 crisis to discredit China’s Sinovac inoculation, in part, as payback for Beijing’s efforts to blame Washington for the pandemic. One target: the Filipino public. Health experts say the gambit was indefensible and put innocent lives at risk. The covert operation reveals the dangerous intersection of geopolitics and global health during a time of unprecedented crisis

The U.S. Treasury has announced sanctions against two Chinese makers of drone engines and parts that the Biden administration says directly helped Russia build long-range attack drones used in the war ...

Legislation to bar Chinese citizens from buying property in the state ultimately failed, but many became politically engaged because of it. The US presidential race between Donald Trump and Kamala ...

Legislation to bar Chinese citizens from buying property in the state ultimately failed, but many became politically engaged because of it. The US presidential race between Donald Trump and Kamala ...

It’s taken decades for Chinese Americans to be seen within cinema. While there is much work still to do, the strides that have been made are being celebrated by The Albuquerque Chinese American Film ...

Closing night film, ”Hello, Love, Again,” the sequel to “Hello, Love, Goodbye,” reunites director Cathy Garcia-Sampana with stars Kathryn Bernardo and Alden Richards. The filmmaker and actors will ...