I have often wondered what people thought when stories that had been passed from one person to another began to be written ...

Everything from recent inspection reports to formal complaints points to an undeniable fact: the penal system is in a severe ...

To sort the prison crisis the Prison Service should get private businesses to invest in mini-factories, so prisoners are paid ...

The Conservative MP for Fylde in Lancashire, Andrew Snowden, was assured in Parliament that his concerns over the growing ...

The National Audit Office (NAO) has recently been critical of the management of the Probation Service. At this time, with the ...

Eleven Approved Premises (AP) hostels that were supposed to have housed dangerous prison leavers during the early release of 4,500 prisoners in England and Wales are currently closed, according to ...

A 39-year-old married woman who had been working as a prison officer at HMP Long Lartin has been handed a nine-month prison ...

Cells in four English prisons have cells left empty due to a lack of staff, Government figures have revealed. Data published ...

A prisoner at HMP Cardiff has had his writing published in elite company – in collection of letters by such famous names as actor Danny Dyer, Olympian Tom Daley and documentary-maker Louis ...

Can you imagine a world where there are no trees, where there is no shade? Can you ever think of a world with no joy, without ...

I busted onto the wing, Prison issue clothes, “no kit” … An empty cash account too, wondering where I’ll fit… I see nothing ...

The walls may steal my freedom, but they’ll never own my soul! PTSD brings storms at night, and B.P.D can take its toll! Some ...