I read Brad Foster’s letter on chemical castration (Mailbag, June 2025) with some interest and I found myself agreeing with ...

My answer would be: yes and no. Even on VP (Vulnerable Prisoner) units, there exists a pecking order among sex offenders. I ...

The launch of David Gauke’s Independent Sentencing Review marks a welcome and timely intervention in a criminal justice ...

I urge the government to give inmates their medications back. Not everyone commits crime because they have an addiction to ...

A few weeks ago, on a Saturday morning, word went round the wing that a seagull had been trapped in the razor wire. We went ...

Before I came to prison, I was not much of an academic. I would shut down at the slightest mention of algebra. I didn’t know ...

Recent changes including the SDS40 scheme allow prisoners to be released early on a longer-but-precarious licence period. This makes space in the prison estate – but what a scam.  Once on licence ...

A female prison officer caught smuggling drugs worth £35,000 into a prison for her inmate lover has been jailed. The ...

A man serving three life sentences was able to stab two officers on the maximum-security wing of high-security HMP Wakefield.

Work to extend a quarry near HMP/YOI Stoke Heath in Shropshire has been given the go-ahead by the local authority, but thanks ...

Senior Labour MP Dame Emily Thornberry has called for the closure of Pentonville prison, which is in her Islington South ...

Levels of radioactive radon gas, which can cause lung cancer with prolonged exposure, have been reduced to within safe limits ...