The family of a woman killed by a psychotic prison leaver has said she “paid with her life for lapses in the English prison ...

The Government is recruiting 82 specialist staff at prisons across England and Wales to process the deportation of foreign ...

Ministers have acted immediately to end the practice of placing girls in young offender institutions following recommendations from Susannah Hancock’s independent review into the placement and ...

A man has been jailed after he conveyed cannabis into a prison as a visitor by hiding the drug in his shoes. On 6 October ...

A female prison officer has been sentenced to 21 months after a court heard that she performed a sex act on an inmate. The 26 ...

After a man remanded in HMP Durham took his own life the day he arrived, the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman has criticised ...

Sometimes my work takes me to meetings where I struggle to find anything interesting to write. That certainly does not apply ...

A prisoner climbed onto the roof of an outbuilding at HMP Berwyn and stayed there for nine hours, hurling pieces of the roof ...

Two legal experts have submitted evidence to a Government-commissioned inquiry into the court system stating that reviewing ...

An inquest jury has concluded that neglect at HMP Liverpool contributed to the death of a prisoner who took his own life in ...

A United Nations torture expert has said British prisoners trapped on indefinite jail terms are probably “being detained ...

While the Government takes steps to ease the capacity crisis in prisons, it has admitted that new laws contained in its Crime ...