The family of a woman killed by a psychotic prison leaver has said she “paid with her life for lapses in the English prison ...

The Government is recruiting 82 specialist staff at prisons across England and Wales to process the deportation of foreign ...

A man has been jailed after he conveyed cannabis into a prison as a visitor by hiding the drug in his shoes. On 6 October ...

A female prison officer has been sentenced to 21 months after a court heard that she performed a sex act on an inmate. The 26 ...

Ministers have acted immediately to end the practice of placing girls in young offender institutions following recommendations from Susannah Hancock’s independent review into the placement and ...

Rocky free! Rapper dodges  knockout verdict A$AP Rocky walked out of a Los Angeles courtroom a free man last month after ...

The CCRC will assess any case, no matter how large or small, ranging from a murder conviction to a motoring sentence. We will ...

The report this month comes from Wandsworth, where one of the groups chose Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca. The novel was first ...

At this prison, rats run everywhere that we as prisoners eat, sleep and work. They are starting to get inside the wings and ...

A column to help you find intriguing books The sheer volume of fiction (without even starting on historical accounts, ...

I got five years for tax fraud in 2016 and was locked up in HMP Wandsworth. I’d never been to prison before, and completely ...

Sometimes my work takes me to meetings where I struggle to find anything interesting to write. That certainly does not apply ...