Imagine spending years without seeing the sky or hearing another human voice. Your world is reduced to four concrete walls, a steel door, and silence so intense it slowly begins to destroy your mind.

A van that has been converted into a mobile prison cell is showing young people the reality of life behind bars. The Harmony Youth Project, based in Bolton, wants to highlight the consequences of knife crime by taking their van to community groups and schools.

A sweeping new bill to protect pregnant prisoners has been introduced in New York, aiming to end childbirth in jail cells and sharply curtail the use of restraints and solitary confinement for expectant mothers across the state.