A prison governor has suggested that elderly prisoners could be moved to care homes in the community, to meet their needs ...

Inmates at Ford open prison will receive training in construction of houses as part of a programme of rehabilitation. It is ...

Mirror has expressed shock to have learned that some prisoners are permitted to keep pets in their cells, and was ...

I’m writing due to something I witnessed during Prime Minister’s Questions on 2 April. For context, someone given a custodial ...

Scotland’s Independent Prison Monitor (IPM) teams have published their annual reports on every jail in the country.  There ...

Two recently-released watchdog reports on men’s prisons in England have expressed concerns about the increasing damage being ...

How can prisoners trapped on endless sentences persuade the Parole Board that they are safe to release? A psychologist offers ...

An Independent Sentencing Review led by former justice secretary David Gauke published its findings in May – and the ...

Short story winners A vivid description of the thoughts that run through a prisoner’s mind whilst lying awake at night has ...

Foreign nationals handed prison sentences in the UK could serve as little as 10 per cent of their time in jail before being ...

I was released on a life license after serving 19 years of an 18-year recommended tariff. Family members of my victims had ...

Summer in the UK is festival season, and the biggest of them all, Glastonbury, has just ended. It has certainly moved on from ...