A charity which once run four restaurants in prisons has said it would be “utterly devastating” if its last remaining site is ...

There has been a sharp increase in incidents of self-harm in HMP Send, according to the latest report from the Independent ...

A man awaiting sentence for fraud in HMP Chelmsford arranged to have a forged High Court letter claiming he had been approved for release sent to the prison – and was let out. Even experienced ...

The Ministry of Justice has announced that it is running a pilot scheme in which people on licence will have to answer to ...

A prisoner who suffered a stroke at HMP Wandsworth was prescribed incorrect and dangerous medication by a doctor and was ...

The number of people in Scotland’s prisons is now higher than before the early release scheme implemented earlier this year.

Government announces independent investigation following reports of pregnant women prisoners being handcuffed  A major ...

I’m writing in relation to the absurd nature of the phone system that covers the prison estate. Two key points. Firstly, ...

One of the main criteria for a prison officer should be to be able to remember prisoners’ first names and be polite, decent, ...

Saying that vegans do not get enough iron is a tired old myth. You don’t need to eat meat in order to get iron into your body ...

Since the original announcement in May this year, we have received a large volume of enquiries about the change in criteria for Fixed Term Recall / Automatic Release. We understand that those ...

I was amazed to see replies in your Mailbag section to an April Fools’ Day joke about sending Category C prisoners to war in Ukraine (‘Let prisoners fight in Ukraine’, June, and ‘You can’t send me ...