The Women’s Justice Board, established by the incoming Labour Government in 2024 to reduce the number of women in prison, has published its first report – calling for pregnant women to be spared ...

Low Newton women’s prison has received a rare rating of “good” from the education inspectorate Ofsted for the quality of its ...

The campaign group Injustice of IPP, which wants to see people serving IPP (Imprisonment for Public Protection) sentences ...

The President of the Prison Governors Association (PGA) has said that some people serving lengthy sentences or whole-life ...

A 78-year-old remand prisoner died after starving himself for six days at HMP Hewell, an inquest heard. Surendra Patel was arrested after a woman, also in her 70s, was found dead in his home. He ...

A man claiming to be serving a prison sentence has said on the social media site TikTok that he had a burger from food chain Five Guys delivered to his cell by drone. A video shows him standing ...

Prisoners are sent an average of £28 a week by their families to pay for phone calls, groceries and toiletries, a survey has found. The figure was revealed in a report by HM Inspectorate of ...

A man serving a life sentence at HMP Isle of Wight hit a prison officer because, he claims, he was desperately seeking to get transferred out of his allotted wing.  The 35-year-old told Isle of ...

Clare Dupree died in a fire in her cell in HMP Eastwood Park just after Christmas in 2022. She was 48 years old, and was trapped in a blaze sparked by a vape. A sufferer from “severe mental ...

The Chief Inspector of Prisons warned of serious failings across the Long-Term High-Security Estate (LTHSE) as he put HMP Woodhill into special measures last week. Two other LTHSE prisons have ...

Approved Premises hostels (APs) – where high-risk individuals are sent to live after being released from prison – are ...

The concrete walls, they do not bend or sway, They do not hear the words I cannot say. The constant hum, a sensory assault, A ...