Lord Timpson told ITV News that short sentences are a 'disaster' for female prisoners, and that his government's reforms to ...

They have also said robots assigned to monitor inmates and using driverless vehicles to transport inmates could help sort Britain’s crumbling prison system. The proposals, which seemed ripped from ...

Lord Timpson is widely known for training and employing ex-prisoners in his shops. He also chairs the Prison Reform Trust, and earlier this year he said publicly that too many people are being ...

Lord Timpson, the former chief executive of Timpson, a shoe repair and key-cutting business, said: “Serious organised crime is a big problem, a huge problem, ...

In light of the Gauke sentencing review, prisons minister Lord Timpson explains why, to end the perma-crisis in our justice system, we must now embark on the largest expansion of jail places since ...

Lord Timpson was speaking to the Politics Hub as the government announced a 10-year prison capacity plan - including plans "to build the 14,000 places the last government failed to deliver".

Lord Timpson refutes claims that gangs are in charge of some of Britain's biggest jails, but acknowledges that serious organised crime is the one thing that "keeps me awake at night".

We spoke to the Prisons, Probation and Reducing Reoffending Minister, Lord Timpson. With the prison population now higher than when he started, we asked him what’s going wrong.

Lord Timpson said: “It’s right that dangerous people are taken off our streets – and that people who destroy lives and wreck our communities face the consequences. “But if we cut to the core of it, ...

Lord Timpson spoke to the Mirror in South East London at the HQ of The Clink, which teaches prisoners and ex-offenders culinary skills. He emphasised the importance of employment in helping people ...

Lord Timpson said it was "a conversation" he was having across the whole public sector. He said that some departments - like the Ministry of Justice - already hired "people with prison experience" in ...