The Ministry of Justice has signed a contract with a major construction company to begin enabling works on the construction ...

I’m writing in regard to the letter from Miss K Bates, ‘Family contact’ (Mailbag, August). I am having the same problem ...

The Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) has referred the convictions of a woman who was groomed and exploited as a child ...

While the Prime Minister scrambles to modify the prisoner early release scheme, there are still around 10,000 foreign ...

The rate of violence at Northern Ireland’s largest prison has more than doubled in four years, according to official figures obtained by the BBC. There were 149 recorded violent incidents at HMP ...

Following Prime Minister Andy Burnham to scrap the Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentence, with a pledge to set up ...

It came in a whisper, a promise of peace,  A wafer-thin bandage for a heart’s deep release. At first, it was comfort; a warm, ...

A male prison officer at Styal women’s prison booked into a Premier Inn hotel for sex with a woman who had been released from ...

The Government’s latest idea of creating prison spaces is to turn spaces such as laundry rooms and classrooms into cells. Anyone who has ever been to a prison knows that there is far from an ...

As another round of prison capacity emergency measures is set to take place, Revolving Doors is keen the Government turns its attention to the smaller group of prisoners who are regularly in and ...

Are too many prisoners here at Gartree losing their lives needlessly? Gartree must have one of the highest suicide rates, and staff here are simply not doing enough in the way of suicide ...

A prison officer who smuggled phones and drugs to prisoners has been jailed for six years. Leicester Crown Court heard that ...