An investigation is underway at HMP Five Wells after the death of a second inmate in the space of 15 days during December.

Sometimes I get depressed when I read the morning newspapers. Not just by yet another dismal Arsenal report, but by the ...

Two pieces of positive news for women in prison. First, in the House of Lords, Parliamentary Under Secretary for Health and ...

The prison service is, for the first time, sponsoring skilled worker visas for overseas applicants. Jails are recruiting ...

Six men have been sentenced for attempting to operate a criminal enterprise whilst in prison. Some of the group were at the ...

I hope this message finds you all well and firstly, thank you for providing a platform from which prisoners and prison life ...

Nottingham Coroner Laurinda Bower has expressed “serious concerns” that prison staff in HMP Lowdham Grange are either unaware ...

The former chair of the independent monitoring board (IMB) at HMP Liverpool has been charged with smuggling cannabis and ...

It is about time that over 70-year-olds were not sent to prison for non-violent crimes. This would release a few hundred ...

Home detention would replace prison for some people if proposals from the Bar Council are accepted by the ongoing sentencing review being led by former Conservative justice secretary David Gauke.

The Ministry of Justice has told Inside Time that a review of prison officer training, begun by Lord James Timpson before he took up his post as Prisons Minister in July, is being put together ...

I have been in prison for 18 years now, and been in 12 different prisons over this very long period of time. I thought that ...