Sometimes I get depressed when I read the morning newspapers. Not just by yet another dismal Arsenal report, but by the ...

An investigation is underway at HMP Five Wells after the death of a second inmate in the space of 15 days during December.

The prison service is, for the first time, sponsoring skilled worker visas for overseas applicants. Jails are recruiting ...

Home detention would replace prison for some people if proposals from the Bar Council are accepted by the ongoing sentencing review being led by former Conservative justice secretary David Gauke.

I hope this message finds you all well and firstly, thank you for providing a platform from which prisoners and prison life ...

Nottingham Coroner Laurinda Bower has expressed “serious concerns” that prison staff in HMP Lowdham Grange are either unaware ...

Six men have been sentenced for attempting to operate a criminal enterprise whilst in prison. Some of the group were at the ...

The former chair of the independent monitoring board (IMB) at HMP Liverpool has been charged with smuggling cannabis and ...

The Ministry of Justice has told Inside Time that a review of prison officer training, begun by Lord James Timpson before he took up his post as Prisons Minister in July, is being put together ...

A minimum age of 21 should be set for prison officers, and the Chief Inspector of Prisons, Charlie Taylor, should resign. So ...

It is about time that over 70-year-olds were not sent to prison for non-violent crimes. This would release a few hundred ...

Britain’s prisons are at risk of becoming like “Latin American jails” according to a letter published in The Times newspaper from three former prison governors. Ian Acheson, John Podmore, and ...