HMP Woodhill has banned visitors from wearing items from popular fashion brand Hoodrich. HMP Wormwood Scrubs and HMP Lewes ...

The Government has back-tracked on plans to start building a network of residential centres for women convicted of low-level ...

A criminal gang whose crimes included torching of prison officers’ cars at HMP Addiewell as well as a number of serious ...

Inmates at HMP Dumfries have been building bird-nesting boxes to help bolster the population of common swifts in the region.

Prisons are serving as ‘universities of crime’ in which people convicted of terrorism offences are teaching members of ...

Jailed members of environmental pressure group Just Stop Oil are planning to bring legal action to have what they describe as ...

The Government must take drugs in prison more seriously, according to HM Chief Inspector of Prisons. He says enormous profits ...

In October 2024 the Lord Chancellor commissioned an independent review of sentencing to help address the growing prison ...

You may have heard that some prisoners will be moved to an open prison if they have 24 months or less to go on their sentence ...

The day after the Chief Inspector of Prisons published his annual report criticising Government failures to tackle drugs in ...

Why are inmates in prison that are diagnosed with terminal cancer kept in prison for the last few months, or even days, when ...

The gym at Wayland prison holds classes in Philosophy, and it was the prison’s own gym staff who came up with the idea and ...