New data from the Ministry of Justice showed the backlog of asylum cases in the lower tribunal rocketed by 104 per cent to 69 ...

Suppliers who worked on HMP Birmingham say they are owed hundreds of thousands of pounds The government is facing questions over tens of millions of pounds owed to suppliers who worked on upgrades to ...

The Ministry of Justice has launched an artificial intelligence “action plan” that aims to embed the use of cutting-edge technology to improve the running of the department and its agencies. Headline ...

Proposals include using technology to link offender records, curbing jail violence by predicting likely perpetrators and equipping all staff with enterprise grade AI assistants by the end of this year ...

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Foreign criminals in prisons across England and Wales will be deported at an earlier point in their sentence under new government plans. The proposed legislation, to be presented in Parliament today, ...

Gaurav Jain, the chief business officer (CBO) of Indian social media platform ShareChat and its short-video app Moj, has resigned from his position. Jain announced his departure internally and ...

Giving the morning keynote at this week’s PublicTechnology Live conference, Kamal Bal told attendees about how the ministry is working to improve services by better supporting both users and ...

The government agency responsible for overseeing billions of pounds worth of legal funding has been hit by a cyber security incident. The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) said it is working with the National ...

Data-based profiling tools are being used by the UK Ministry of Justice (MoJ) to algorithmically “predict” people’s risk of committing criminal offences, but pressure group Statewatch says the use of ...

Feltham Young Offender Institution (YOI) will be one of three public sector institutions where synthetic pepper spray is introduced this summer, as part of efforts to combat rising levels of violence ...

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