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 ...

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

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

Retired senior judge Sir Brian Leveson, who was tasked by the Government to look at ways to solve the backlog of cases in the criminal courts, has made radical proposals to change the system and ...

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

Prisoners’ Education Trust brings you details of a subject you could study in your cell  These free introductory modules can ...

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

The Victim Contact Scheme (VCS) in England and Wales is a service designed to keep victims of certain crimes informed about what happens to the person convicted of the offence after they have been ...