A leading prison charity is cutting two support services for the families of prisoners and defendants, blaming the Government ...

I read Brad Foster’s letter on chemical castration (Mailbag, June 2025) with some interest and I found myself agreeing with ...

I was interested to read your article about Official Prison Visitors (‘Tea and chat can be a lifeline’, June 2025). I first ...

My answer would be: yes and no. Even on VP (Vulnerable Prisoner) units, there exists a pecking order among sex offenders. I ...

Immigration detainees are not having their medical needs met, a report by a charity has claimed. In its first annual review ...

The launch of David Gauke’s Independent Sentencing Review marks a welcome and timely intervention in a criminal justice ...

A few weeks ago, on a Saturday morning, word went round the wing that a seagull had been trapped in the razor wire. We went ...

I urge the government to give inmates their medications back. Not everyone commits crime because they have an addiction to ...

Day after day, week after week, I receive reports from Coroner’s inquests and from the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO) ...

There have recently been headlines suggesting that vegans who eat avocados and almonds do more harm to the planet than people ...

Some prison leavers will penned in to ‘Restriction Zones’ enforced by GPS tags, under Government plans announced last week.

Before I came to prison, I was not much of an academic. I would shut down at the slightest mention of algebra. I didn’t know ...