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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Last month the Government announced its plan to roll out the most significant law reform in a decade for people stuck on IPP ...

I have been here on Hindley’s PIPE (Psychologically-Informed Planned Environment) unit for a year now. I was previously in ...

The new early release scheme has begun, applying to most people serving sentences of under four years, with some offences ...