After years of controversy surrounding lethal injections, the western US state looks to automate the process of shooting people sentenced to death Come July, a new Idaho law will require the state ...

The Government department in charge of prisons has admitted to using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to “brainstorm ideas” for new policies.  Asked in the House of Commons whether the Ministry of ...

Books you won’t find in a prison library include ‘How to Tunnel Out of a Cell’ or ‘A Beginner’s Guide to Knife-Making’. But ...

In September 2025, HMPPS published a new policy covering how Approved Premises should operate. The Community Accommodation Service Tier 1 (CAS1): Approved Premises policy framework replaces the ...

The head of an Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) which criticised the way a prison was run has been suspended from her post ...

The proposed merger of Independent Monitoring Boards (IMBs) and Lay Observers into HM Inspectorate of Prisons was not announced in the usual way. In fact, this newspaper was the very first to ...

On VP (Vulnerable Prisoner) wings in prisons across the country, there are prisoners who have committed crimes against girls ...

I seek clarity via your excellent newspaper. I have read with interest various articles in relation to being allowed books ...

I put in the relevant application for my partner to send me a book direct from the suppliers Waterstones. The book (pictured) is called Nuclear War: A Scenario, by Annie Jacobsen. This application ...

Foreign national prisoners in Scotland face a complex and often unclear legal situation. While deportation powers are ...

At three years of age, I was taken away from a relatively safe home by social services and placed into a children’s home. A ...

This prison relies heavily on weak, uncorroborated, irrelevant and at times frankly ridiculous intelligence produced by ...