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 ...

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

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

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, ...

Contracts worth up to £1.5 billion for education in prisons in England have been awarded after a two-year bidding process – to three of the four existing providers. Novus, PeoplePlus and Milton ...

Immigration detainees are not having their medical needs met, a report by a charity has claimed. In its first annual review ...

A leading prison charity is cutting two support services for the families of prisoners and defendants, blaming the Government ...

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

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

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