As 2025 began, some jails in England and Wales were still close to being full – despite the success of the early release ...

A prisoner described as “highly dangerous” tried to kill five prison officers with homemade weapons including one made out of ...

HM Chief Inspector of Prisons, Charlie Taylor, has again called for urgent action to tackle drones which are frequently ...

Reality TV star Kim Kardashian has called on the US authorities to ensure prisoners who have been helping fight fires in ...

From our many visits into prisons, working with prison communities and charities, we know that you are interested in a wide ...

Adjudications, commonly known as ‘nickings’ are the procedures by which offences against the Prison Rules, allegedly having ...

A pharmacy support worker at HMP Doncaster has been jailed for eight months after she admitted forming a relationship with a ...

The head of the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) has quit – with an angry resignation letter saying she had been ...

There are some changes needed within the prison system that seem so obviously sensible it is hard to understand why they are ...

I’m responding to the Mailbag titled ‘Religious discrimination’ (September 2024). At this prison, the Christians and Muslims ...

When I first came to prison, it was recommended that as part of my sentence plan, I completed the Horizon programme. But it ...

You disgust me. Get your things and go home and don’t return.” That is what Matthew Brady, a former prison officer who was ...