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 ...
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 ...