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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Thousands of prison-leavers and people on community sentences are getting only 16 weeks of supervision under a policy ...