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 crimes – seven years after it announced the scheme. Planning permission ...

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 ...

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

Police officers, probation officers and other public servants love to word their reports which merely serve to showcase their ...

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

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 ...

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

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