The new early release scheme has begun, applying to most people serving sentences of under four years, with some offences ...

Prisoners who spend the night in Scottish police cells are to be asked to rate their stay. The “customer user experience ...

The number of fires in prison cells leapt last year, raising concerns over the lack of fire safety equipment in jails.

Older prisoners should be moved out of prisons and into secure care homes, a report by a leading charity has suggested.

More than £100,000 has been spent tackling rats and mice at failing Wandsworth prison – with only partial success. Following ...

A brain-damaged man who was jailed for life in 1991 over the fatal shooting of a shopkeeper has had his murder conviction ...

A decision to cut the length of time high-risk offenders spend in probation hostels after their release from prison poses a ...

Scotland has shown that early releases do not necessarily solve capacity problems – with the country’s prisoner population ...

MPs have issued a fresh call to reform the joint enterprise legal interpretation, which has seen groups of friends and associates collectively punished for the crimes of an individual. Spearheaded ...

The first day of the Labour Government’s early release scheme to tackle the capacity crisis in prisons shone a rare public ...

HMP Bullington; what a diabolical institution. The water is contaminated in the prison, and I contracted gastroenteritis in the first week. I stopped drinking the water. The food is mostly flavorless ...

On the 2nd of July 2024, I was taken into hospital with chest pains. The staff in A&E were exceptional. I was moved onto an acute medical unit (AMU) within six hours. On the 3rd of July 2024, I was ...