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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

MPs on the all-party Justice Select Committee held the first hearing of an investigation into care and welfare within the ...