Award-winning pianist Clare Hammond and composer Michael Betteridge are giving prisoners the opportunity to compose piano ...

A drug dealer caught with tablets and Spice in his cell has been given additional time. The 44-year-old man was jailed in ...

Female prison governors face sexism and ‘boys club’ attitudes from their senior male colleagues, according to the findings of ...

Investing in community mental health services would help to ease the pressure on the prison system by diverting more people ...

The most widely-used ‘restorative justice’ programme, which brings prisoners face-to-face with victims to show the harm ...

Recently-published offender management statistics have shown that the IPP Action Plan has not led to significant improvements ...

Ministry of Justice figures published last week for the use of offending behaviour programmes by the Probation Service show ...

Whilst political attention often centres on the NHS and the visible front line of our healthcare system, a disturbing silence ...

An inmate in HMP Littlehey died after the prison cancelled his cancer check-ups due to a lack of escort staff. A report into ...

Reading the Mailbag ‘Let prisoners fight in Ukraine’ (April) made me think back to the last general election when the ...

The HMP Leeds Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) says it is very concerned at the large number of self-inflicted deaths at ...

Plans to expand HMP Parc to create space for more prisoners have now been handed in to local Bridgend Council by the Ministry of Justice. The proposal is for a new “K-shaped houseblock” for an ...