Prisons are serving as ‘universities of crime’ in which people convicted of terrorism offences are teaching members of ...

Jailed members of environmental pressure group Just Stop Oil are planning to bring legal action to have what they describe as ...

The gym at Wayland prison holds classes in Philosophy, and it was the prison’s own gym staff who came up with the idea and ...

The day after the Chief Inspector of Prisons published his annual report criticising Government failures to tackle drugs in ...

Retired senior judge Sir Brian Leveson, who was tasked by the Government to look at ways to solve the backlog of cases in the criminal courts, has made radical proposals to change the system and ...

The Government must take drugs in prison more seriously, according to HM Chief Inspector of Prisons. He says enormous profits ...

In October 2024 the Lord Chancellor commissioned an independent review of sentencing to help address the growing prison ...

We are always pleased to receive letters updating us on stories we have covered in recent times. We are particularly ...

Why are inmates in prison that are diagnosed with terminal cancer kept in prison for the last few months, or even days, when ...

Learning from my brother before I came to prison, I briefly played the drums. I never thought much about it – then I came to ...

My time spent in prison was never comfortable. I yearned to be free, and I could never quite fit in, and that’s what kept me ...

Having been made aware of pictures leaked to the BBC of the enormous mushrooms that grow from the walls here at HMP Frankland ...