Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood has ordered a review into whether prison officers should be issued with stab vests in the ...

A prisoner at HMP Wandsworth was living in a cell that was “too hot” in the days leading up to his death from a heat-related ...

Criminals are going untagged for months after their release from prison in England and Wales amid “chaos” in the system used to track them. An undercover reporter, for Dispatches on Channel 4, was ...

Prisons Minister Lord Timpson has told Inside Time that the Government has ‘no plans’ for another round of early releases, as ...

A new prison rule states that every prisoner must be allowed at least one 30-minute library visit every week – but only if ...

I have recently been released from HMP Swansea, and I cannot thank them enough for the lifesaving intervention the experience ...

Inside Time, the UK’s national newspaper for prisoners and detainees, has been commended in the Newspaper Awards for the ...

On a number of occasions I have had the opportunity to discuss education within prisons with Maria Navarro, Ofsted’s special ...

It annoys me that the Government are planning on putting all illegal immigrants on tracker tags to monitor them. Why not just ...

I am someone who has got used to prison issues – sugar, teabags, coffee sachets and whiteners. But in the last year or so, I ...

Prison is a joke – and if you look at what it actually offers on a day-to-day basis, it is not even a funny joke. I do not ...

What is the chance to change? For change to occur, the individual has got to want to change. Anyone can stay in prison. It’s out of prison where the problems arise. Freedom of itself is not ...