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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

HMP Frankland has reopened the unit where a prisoner serving time for terrorism offences stabbed and scalded three officers ...

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

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

The Armed Forces charity SSAFA (Soldiers’, Sailors’ and Airmen’s Families Association) has been awarded funding to launch an ...

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

Prisons will use new tool called the “AI violence predictor” to determine the threat posed by individuals in custody and take ...