MPs on the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) have warned that prisons and law courts – along with schools, hospitals, the ...

In a survey of prison officers in Scotland, more than 95 per cent said that rising prisoner numbers are making the country’s ...

A prison governor has suffered a fractured skull after in an assault by an inmate at HMP Ranby in Nottinghamshire. The ...

Andy Slaughter, Chair of the Justice Select Committee (JSC), has expressed “cautious optimism” about the future of the CCRC ...

Following an inquest in Dorset, Coroner Rachael Griffin has warned that weaknesses found at HMP The Verne that led to the suicide of 53-year-old Colin Lovett are happening elsewhere. She has ...

These five UK tracks are among the most streamed prison-related songs of all time. Shaped by lived experience and the reality ...

As part of its push to prevent the return of a prison capacity crisis, the Ministry of Justice has revealed the design of a ...

A violent prisoner who had spent over 30 years behind bars cried “Who wants it?” before throwing a kettle of boiling water at ...

A baby died at Foston Hall women’s prison within 24 hours of birth in 2023 – but details were withheld from the public for a ...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves (pictured) committed to spending £7 billion on building new prison places in a Spending Review which ...

Families of inmates at two men’s prisons in England where people convicted of sexual offences (PCoSOs) are held on the same ...

Once again, I am going to use this space to publish an item that a reader has sent in. On this occasion it is Mark Clews, who ...