None of the three young offender institutions (YOIs) in England provided children in their care with the education to which ...

Whilst politicians and the Press have been highlighting the number of people released too early from prison, it has now been ...

Sundeep Ghuman was murdered by his cellmate, a known violent racist. Last month a Coroner pointed to failings which led to ...

Two inquests into deaths in prisons are underway in which errors have been exposed, whilst the Government has been forced to ...

A 20-year-old prisoner assaulted a prison officer at HMP Deerbolt following a routine shower procedure, striking the member ...

A prison is struggling to organise 11-a-side football matches because prisoners are frightened to mix with others for fear of being attacked, a watchdog has revealed. The threat of violence has ...

The Chair of a prison watchdog was dismissed by Prisons Minister Lord Timpson the day after the publication of a ...

Tuesday 25 November saw the first-ever Children with a Parent in Prison Day marked in the UK. Schools, charities, and ...

Police have launched an investigation after three prison officers were injured during a stabbing incident at HMP Isle of ...

In 2005, in a speech to Prison Service leaders, I pointed out that recommendations from Lord Woolf’s 1996 inquiry into prison ...

In 1959, the late, great Tony Hancock appeared in a parody of the classic film, Twelve Angry Men. Hancock was the foreman of ...

Justice Secretary David Lammy (pictured) has drawn up proposals to massively restrict the historic right to a jury trial for ...