The 14,000 new prison places which Labour has promised will cost £600,000 each to build, according to a ...

Failure by prisons to meet the basic needs of men and women in their care is fuelling an epidemic of self-harm behind bars, ...

For every four people released from prison, three are recalled for breaching licence conditions, according to the latest data ...

I read Brad Foster’s letter on chemical castration (Mailbag, June 2025) with some interest and I found myself agreeing with ...

Recent changes including the SDS40 scheme allow prisoners to be released early on a longer-but-precarious licence period.

Some prison leavers will penned in to ‘Restriction Zones’ enforced by GPS tags, under Government plans announced last week.

Day after day, week after week, I receive reports from Coroner’s inquests and from the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO) ...

The launch of David Gauke’s Independent Sentencing Review marks a welcome and timely intervention in a criminal justice ...

I was interested to read your article about Official Prison Visitors (‘Tea and chat can be a lifeline’, June 2025). I first ...

A leading prison charity is cutting two support services for the families of prisoners and defendants, blaming the Government ...

I urge the government to give inmates their medications back. Not everyone commits crime because they have an addiction to ...

A few weeks ago, on a Saturday morning, word went round the wing that a seagull had been trapped in the razor wire. We went ...