Contracts worth up to £1.5 billion for education in prisons in England have been awarded after a two-year bidding process – to three of the four existing providers. Novus, PeoplePlus and Milton ...

Immigration detainees are not having their medical needs met, a report by a charity has claimed. In its first annual review ...

A leading prison charity is cutting two support services for the families of prisoners and defendants, blaming the Government ...

Some prison leavers will penned in to ‘Restriction Zones’ enforced by GPS tags, under Government plans announced last week.

Day after day, week after week, I receive reports from Coroner’s inquests and from the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO) ...

I was interested to read your article about Official Prison Visitors (‘Tea and chat can be a lifeline’, June 2025). I first ...

There have recently been headlines suggesting that vegans who eat avocados and almonds do more harm to the planet than people ...

I can’t ever see there will be a more convenient and purposeful time to get rid of IPP sentences for good and to make them history. Labour now has the opportunity to put right the mess they ...

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 ...

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 ...