Mark Fairhurst, National Chair of the Prison Officers’ Association, has called for the prison population to be halved. In an ...

Once again, I am going to use this space to publish an item that a reader has sent in. On this occasion it is Mark Clews, who ...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves (pictured) committed to spending £7 billion on building new prison places in a Spending Review which gave justice a more generous settlement than education or defence. The ...

A baby died at Foston Hall women’s prison within 24 hours of birth in 2023 – but details were withheld from the public for a year and a half. The death occurred on 16 October, 2023 – but key ...

National Prison Radio will be marking Windrush Day by broadcasting special shows to celebrate Caribbean culture. These shows ...

These five UK tracks are among the most streamed prison-related songs of all time. Shaped by lived experience and the reality ...

HMP Downview Your Daddy is a soldier son, your Daddy’s gone to war His steady hands they hold his gun, his aim is keen and ...

It’s dark outside, darker inside my head I feel awake when I should be in bed I try the door, but inside it’s locked I hear ...

Families of inmates at two men’s prisons in England where people convicted of sexual offences (PCoSOs) are held on the same ...

Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood has said that stab-proof vests will be issued to all officers within units in high security ...

A prison officer had to be airlifted to hospital after being stabbed at Long Lartin high-security prison. The attack is ...

A new-look digital guide to the Scottish justice system has been launched to help people understand the different processes ...