Conservative shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick repeated Michael Howard’s 1993 claim that “prison works” in his first ...

Spice Attack: I did this picture for the Koestler competition when the theme was ‘Through the window’. I thought I would try ...

HMP Leeds has been told it “missed opportunities” to manage the risk posed to a prisoner who hanged himself earlier this year ...

Foreign nationals convicted of crimes in the UK could be deported to their homelands without spending time in a British ...

An inquest has begun into the deaths of three prisoners at HMP Lowdham Grange who were all found hanging in their cells ...

An actor had a mixed reception when he toured prison chapels with his one-man show, in which he recites the Bible from memory ...

A prison officer smuggled drugs, needles, and mobile phones into HMP Buckley Hall – and then tried to blame an innocent ...

A quarter of prisoners eligible for early release from Scottish prisons were blocked from leaving – after governors ruled ...

A total of 3,112 prisoners were released early in September and October under the Government’s SDS40 scheme to ease the ...

Prisoners at HMP Garth are burning holes in their windows and using mop and broom handles to hook parcels of drugs flown in ...

Anyone who has to be released by the Parole Board will no doubt have to undergo a psychological assessment beforehand, but ...

I have read this paper many times. And I’ve read it with nearly 25 years’ shameful experience of prison life. I remember once ...