New healthcare providers have been announced for prisons in the East Midlands after Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation ...

The chief executive of the miscarriage of justice watchdog, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC), has resigned after ...

A 60-year-old prisoner who died of heart failure while serving his sentence was “badly let down” by the prison system, ...

Within one week in late June, two significant reports were published. The first, by an expert panel established by the Howard ...

Prison operator Serco has called for more searches of staff entering prisons, to combat the risk of corrupt individuals ...

The shadow of indeterminate sentences looms large within the UK’s penal system, a stark contrast to the approaches of many European nations. While open-ended detention exists elsewhere, the sheer ...

With temperature in England and Wales increasing year on year, according to climate scientists, there could be a damaging effect on the welfare of those in prison – with prisoners, staff, and even ...

Two recently-released watchdog reports on men’s prisons in England have expressed concerns about the increasing damage being done by smuggled-in drugs. The reports, by the Independent Monitoring ...

Inmates at Ford open prison will receive training in construction of houses as part of a programme of rehabilitation. It is hoped that the work will lead to employment on release, and future careers.

There are calls for a crackdown on drugs entering the Northern Irish prison system after a recent spike in recorded overdoses, with 166 overdoses having happened within the province’s three jails ...

The Daily Mirror has expressed shock to have learned that some prisoners are permitted to keep pets in their cells, and was particularly amazed that one man at HMP Manchester apparently has a tortoise ...

Scotland’s Independent Prison Monitor (IPM) teams have published their annual reports on every jail in the country. There are 17 prisons, with a separate report from each. There were, however, common ...