The Prison Service has launched its own investigation into the mistakes which led to an Ethiopian asylum seeker and convicted ...

When the Government’s Sentencing Bill came before Parliament for its House of Commons committee stage last week, amendments ...

Researchers at Cardiff and Liverpool Universities have reported that inmates in HMP Berwyn, the biggest prison in Wales, have ...

HMP and YOI Stirling has won two major awards from the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). The organisation ...

A 19-year-old woman who worked as a prison officer at HMP Five Wells has appeared in Northampton Magistrates Court to face ...

A 37=year-old man serving a life sentence at HMP Shotts has been was given an additional year in prison after he attacked a ...

A judge in Mold Crown Court told of the serious harm that drugs cause in prisons as he jailed a man for three years and seven ...

The Prison Officers’ Association (POA) has said that the bill for repair costs in prisons within England and Wales runs into ...

There are many problems within the criminal justice system. There are many failing services in prisons. There are good staff ...

On 9 June 2025, FTR48 was laid in Parliament which amended the Criminal Justice Act 2003 in order to change the recall policy ...

Supporters of the protest group Palestine Action being held on remand in UK prisons are threatening to begin a hunger strike on 2 November.  They say that their treatment in prison has been ...

Prisons in England and Wales have tightened their procedures for releasing prisoners, following the wrongful release of an ...