Blaney got my eyebrows up: Criminals on probation have committed 120 murders in the past TWO years. I do wonder how the do-gooders in the Howard League for Penal Reform and their fellow apologists for violent criminals can sleep at night. How many of these people had been released early by the government, a government too mean to spend the billions in tax revenues purloined from us on new prisons?...

The BBC is reporting some new tech research: Computer criminals could soon be eavesdropping on what you type by analysing the electromagnetic signals produced by every key press. Computer criminals? I assume they mistyped GCHQ?

Criminals on probation have committed 120 murders in the past TWO years. I do wonder how the do-gooders in the Howard League for Penal Reform and their fellow apologists for violent criminals can sleep at night.  How many of these people had been released early by the government, a government too mean to spend the billions in tax revenues purloined from us on new prisons? Michael Howard memor...

Against a backdrop of steadily falling detection rates for crimes, we have a government that falls over itself to come up with new ways of reduce the amount of time convicted criminals spend in prisons. The time that criminals do spend in prison is often a waste because the inmates are allowed to get stoned on drugs thanks to useless enforcement and because rehabilitation and education schemes

Prisons are being told to aim for just an average performance in rehabilitating criminals because of budget cuts, the prisons watchdog has revealed.

Louise Casey, the Anti-social Behaviour ‘Tsar’, has made a very important point this Boxing Day. Police, and the corrupt law and justice system, put criminals first. They don’t really care about the victims. What kind of society have we become when victims of crime are relegated because of an obsession with the criminals perceived rights. We would have

Apparently, this practice of making criminals wear clothing that declares that they are criminals is hurting their poor wee souls. Criminals wearing orange jackets while working in the community have been abused and jeered at by members of the public, according to study by leaders of the probation officers. Good. Since ASBOs and tags have apparently become status symbols amongst the varied and ass...

Exclusive: The number of cautions being given to violent criminals has risen by 82 per cent in just five years.

Most criminals should be spared jail with prison reserved for only the most serious offenders the Liberal Democrats have said.

This is Peter Hitchens' Mail on Sunday columnIf we can’t make criminals fear the law, then we will have to live in fear of criminals. It is that simple. When I first warned of this some years back, it was...