Magistrates in England and Wales could be given powers to hand down sentences of up to a year, in a move by the new Labour ...

Men in two London prisons are being trained to start up street food businesses after they are released. The Streets Ahead programme is run by KERB+, a not-for-profit social enterprise whose aim is ...

A female prison officer at HMP The Mount who began a relationship with a prisoner and exchanged 4,500 texts and calls with ...

The new Labour Government has reportedly decided to reject a call from the Prison Officers’ Association (POA) to reinstate the right to strike for prison officers in England and Wales. Earlier ...

When a prisoner suffered a heart attack in his locked cell, his cellmate pressed the cell’s emergency bell – only for it to ...

A prisoner at HMP Maidstone has been convicted of murdering another inmate with a toilet lid and a chair, then attempting to ...

A former Lord Chief Justice has accused successive governments of carrying out a “confidence trick” on the public by ...

HMP Hindley, in Wigan, has the worst drug problem of any prison in England and Wales, according to a report from HM ...

The Government’s SDS40 early release scheme, which will see thousands of prisoners go home after serving just 40 per cent of ...

Prison-leavers who went home before their scheduled date under the Government’s early release scheme have not been fitted ...

I have been thinking about Cassandra. Not Rodney’s wife in Only Fools and Horses, giving away my age, but the priestess from ancient times in the city of Troy, who the Gods both blessed and ...