The Government has acknowledged the impact that vetting delays are having on staffing in prisons and probation, as it ...

New laws intended to speed up the transfer of severely mentally ill prisoners to NHS hospitals may not work unless further ...

A prison which locks down for two afternoons per week, allowing staff to “engage in activities that improve wellbeing”, will ...

The ups, downs, challenges and triumphs of a prison leaver’s journey Achmed – front wheel buckling as it hit the kerb, flying ...

The number of people dying within two weeks of being released from prison reached a record high last year, a newspaper ...

The former Chair of the Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) at HMP Liverpool has been jailed for five years and three months ...

Despite a drop in recorded assaults within Long Lartin high-security prison, Chief Inspector of Prisons Charlie Taylor has ...

Prisoners who receive adjudications for breaking prison rules whilst in custody are more than twice as likely to reoffend ...

A woman has been warned that all sentencing options remain open after she admitted carrying out a computer-based offence at ...

A prison has assigned staff to oversee the serving of meals after complaints that young men were being bullied and starved by ...

Public-sector prisons in England and Wales have lost more than 700 uniformed officers in the past year – an average of seven ...

Men in open prisons are being denied day release and left at risk of being released homeless because of a flawed offender ...