The Scottish Prison Service (SPS) has set out an £8 million shopping list of improvements needed to keep drugs out of its 14 ...

A prisoner who staged two rooftop protests to draw attention to the issue of endless Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) ...

The Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) has started a review of historic applications to look again at cases where ...

For every four people released from prison, three are recalled for breaching licence conditions, according to the latest data ...

Failure by prisons to meet the basic needs of men and women in their care is fuelling an epidemic of self-harm behind bars, ...

The 14,000 new prison places which Labour has promised will cost £600,000 each to build, according to a ...

I read Brad Foster’s letter on chemical castration (Mailbag, June 2025) with some interest and I found myself agreeing with ...

Day after day, week after week, I receive reports from Coroner’s inquests and from the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO) ...

The launch of David Gauke’s Independent Sentencing Review marks a welcome and timely intervention in a criminal justice ...

Recent changes including the SDS40 scheme allow prisoners to be released early on a longer-but-precarious licence period.

Some prison leavers will penned in to ‘Restriction Zones’ enforced by GPS tags, under Government plans announced last week.

I was interested to read your article about Official Prison Visitors (‘Tea and chat can be a lifeline’, June 2025). I first ...