UK prisons

PC Harper's killers to stay in jail as PM announces changes to early release scheme

Andy Burnham tells BBC Breakfast anyone convicted of manslaughter will be excluded from the early release scheme in the Sentencing Act.

Serious violent and sexual offenders may be confined to areas of just a few miles after leaving prison on probation.

Male prisons have less than 1,800 spaces available in England and Wales, the lowest level since March

The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) heard Keira Burton had been jailed over drugs taken into HMP Preston.

Former PC Timothy Brehmer strangled his lover after she threatened to expose their affair to his wife.

Theresa Mcrae, from Southampton, is demanding immediate action to end "torturous" indefinite prison terms.

The chief inspector of probation for England and Wales tells the BBC services are already under "unprecedented pressure".

The PM says the justice secretary will present a plan in September to prevent more early releases.

None of the solutions proposed are quick or easy and some carry political risk, writes UK correspondent Daniel Sandford.