One of the main criteria for a prison officer should be to be able to remember prisoners’ first names and be polite, decent, ...

A prisoner who suffered a stroke at HMP Wandsworth was prescribed incorrect and dangerous medication by a doctor and was ...

The number of people in Scotland’s prisons is now higher than before the early release scheme implemented earlier this year.

The Ministry of Justice has announced that it is running a pilot scheme in which people on licence will have to answer to ...

I completely agree with Danny Green from Lowdham Grange (‘Exclusions from Early Release’, Mailbags, Aug). The way Home Detention Curfew (HDC) and early release are worked out is all wrong. Each case ...

When I was sentenced, the judge told me that as a transgender woman in a male prison, I would face ‘additional difficulties’ inside. One has to presume, given his job, that these ‘additional ...

This morning I had two choices about what to write. I considered covering the change from Shabana Mahmood to David Lammy as Justice Secretary following a Cabinet reshuffle, and talking about the ...

An unlikely row has broken out over the welfare of Bailey, a ‘comfort dog’ being cared for by a prisoner at HMP Magilligan in ...

A man who waited four years to take revenge and murder a former prison officer who took an illicit mobile phone from his cell ...

Annual reports from the Independent Monitoring Boards (IMBs) at two English prisons have expressed concern about ...

HMP Fosse Way prisoner Dennis Green, 42, who was assaulted by a fellow inmate on 6 August, is now known to have died in ...

Inquests have been opened into the deaths of two men within weeks of each other at HMP Lowdham Grange last winter. The drug ...