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 ...

My time spent in prison was never comfortable. I yearned to be free, and I could never quite fit in, and that’s what kept me ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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