Two inquests into deaths in prisons are underway in which errors have been exposed, whilst the Government has been forced to ...

A prison is struggling to organise 11-a-side football matches because prisoners are frightened to mix with others for fear of ...

A 20-year-old prisoner assaulted a prison officer at HMP Deerbolt following a routine shower procedure, striking the member ...

The Chair of a prison watchdog was dismissed by Prisons Minister Lord Timpson the day after the publication of a ...

In 2005, in a speech to Prison Service leaders, I pointed out that recommendations from Lord Woolf’s 1996 inquiry into prison ...

Tuesday 25 November saw the first-ever Children with a Parent in Prison Day marked in the UK. Schools, charities, and ...

Police have launched an investigation after three prison officers were injured during a stabbing incident at HMP Isle of ...

In 1959, the late, great Tony Hancock appeared in a parody of the classic film, Twelve Angry Men. Hancock was the foreman of ...

Sundeep Ghuman never stood a chance. He was locked in a cell overnight with a White man who had been overheard telling other prisoners at YOI Feltham that he was part of a racist gang which went ...

Female prisoners who look after livestock at their open prison have named some of the pigs after staff at the establishment, the BBC reported last week. At HMP East Sutton Park, near Maidstone in ...

Justice Secretary David Lammy (pictured) has drawn up proposals to massively restrict the historic right to a jury trial for ...

The latest prison workforce statistics show that officer numbers are still falling, albeit slowly. The number working in public sector prisons in England and Wales fell by 3.1 per cent in the 12 ...