On 17 September, the House of Lords debated a motion, moved by Conservative Peer Lord Farmer. It stated: “This House takes note of the state of the prison and probation service in England and ...

Around nine years ago, I read an article in Inside Time about a prison that the Danish had built, which they called the 100 per cent humanitarian prison. It cost £100 million to build and it ...

The Prison Service has implemented a progression plan referred to as IEP. When people hear this mentioned, they instantly see it as a punishment for unruly behaviour or not adhering to the prison ...

America is having a constitutional argument about what are sometimes called ‘agency courts’: administrative tribunals operating within government departments. The Institute for Justice, a US ...

The Government has come under extreme pressure about releasing prisoners early. It was always going to be controversial, and a public outrage was inevitable. There was an easier way to resolve the ...

I feel I must write to you about the madness here at HMP Doncaster. We have had a notice to prisoners saying that with immediate effect, matchsticks and glue will no longer be available to ...

I have been trying to transfer out of HMP Stafford in order to be closer to my family in Portsmouth. Two weeks after I arrived here, my mother sadly passed away after a battle with dementia. This ...

This is the first time I have written to your fine paper, which over the years has come to be a main staple for me and many thousands of prisoners up and down this great country. Having spent some ...

Building work at HMP Lancaster Farms will see the number of places at the jail increase from 584 to 824, with new cells being introduced equipped with modern security features such as reinforced ...

A newly-refurbished wing that was meant to provide 170 extra cells at HMP Norwich has only added 10 because two other wings at the jail have had to be closed. The £38 million renovation of the ...

Black boys in custody are more likely to have PAVA synthetic pepper spray used against them than their White counterparts, according to Ministry of Justice statistics. The data, released to the ...

Parliamentarians, trade union leaders and rank-and-file police officers have joined forces to call on the Government to order a Royal Commission on Prisons and the Justice System. A joint letter ...