MARIETTA — In an effort to curtail violent offenders leaving jail too soon and re-offending, a new Ohio law, which goes into effect on March 21, allows judges to give indefinite sentences with minimum ...

Campaigners have hit out at the "short-sighted" decision not to include prisoners on indefinite sentences in the plans to reduce the prison population. On Thursday, the government published its ...

Dame Vera Baird is a doughty champion in the fight against injustice. As chair of the Criminal Cases Review Commission, she has asked the appeal courts to look at the cases of five men who are serving ...

COLERAIN TOWNSHIP, Ohio — The 16-year-old Colerain High School student who assaulted his 60-year-old teacher on Jan. 4 will serve an indefinite sentence at the Department of Youth Services after ...

Five prisoners serving indefinite sentences have been referred to the Court of Appeal by the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC), BBC Newsnight has been told. Despite being abolished in 2012, ...

This week government figures are likely to show the prison population back to where it was before the last early release scheme. But even though hundreds of prisoners have served only 40% of their ...

The Government has been urged to re-sentence all prisoners on indefinite sentences to end the “appalling torture” they are going through. Labour peer Lord Woodley called on ministers in the House of ...

Everyone agrees that indefinite prison sentences were a mistake. They were introduced by the Labour government in 2003 as a “tough” measure to deal with criminals guilty of serious crimes who might ...