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 ...

Prison separates families, and that can be hard to bear. Whether you are in a partnership that is strong, or perhaps ...

There is a type of mourning that happens in here that has nothing to do with grief. It is the mourning for a world we no ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...