Give up prisons, top judge tells minister

An ‘obvious potential conflict of interest’ for the Ministry of Justice

May 25, 2023

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The most senior judge in England and Wales has suggested that the Ministry of Justice should no longer be responsible for running prisons. The department took on prisons and probation when it was created in 2007. Before that, the lord chancellor briefly headed a Department for Constitutional Affairs. Prisons had been run by the Home Office since 1823.

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