Andy Slaughter, has said he is disappointed that of 29 recommendations made by the JSC to tackle the drugs crisis in prisons, ...

It has been two years since historic Reading jail, which once held Irish writer Oscar Wilde, was sold to a Chinese ...

A prisoner in Scotland who failed to return to jail from an approved home visit has been traced after four days.  The 36-year ...

Unlock, the charity which supports and advocates for people with criminal records to be able to move on positively in their ...

A 29-year-old woman who worked as a prison officer at HMP Peterborough pleaded not guilty to a range of offences at Cambridge Crown Court earlier this month.  The woman stands accused of entering ...

We live in such a stressful world, With daily tensions we toy, But reading good books can give us so many. Precious moments ...

To mark the two-year anniversary of his release, former NPR producer and presenter, Nico, has returned to the HMP Brixton ...

The walls close in and I’m struggling. My thoughts are like waves and I’m drowning. Spiralling down, heart gripped with fear.

The ups, downs, challenges and triumphs of a prison leaver’s journey ‘Hello, are you Jason? My name’s Stan. Governor Owens ...

The smell of Polly filters through the cast iron pipes. As the spice heads kick and thump on the cell doors. Screaming at the ...

Some Scottish prisons have been described as “dangerously out of control” in a report produced by the Criminal Justice ...

Assaults on prison officers are not taken as seriously as assaults on police, a watchdog has claimed. The Independent ...