Today I am taking a day off from recording depressing news about our prisons. I want to celebrate some great initiatives and ...

Award-winning pianist Clare Hammond and composer Michael Betteridge are giving prisoners the opportunity to compose piano ...

A drug dealer caught with tablets and Spice in his cell has been given additional time. The 44-year-old man was jailed in ...

Investing in community mental health services would help to ease the pressure on the prison system by diverting more people ...

Female prison governors face sexism and ‘boys club’ attitudes from their senior male colleagues, according to the findings of ...

The most widely-used ‘restorative justice’ programme, which brings prisoners face-to-face with victims to show the harm ...

Last year I visited a Sycamore Tree course at HMP The Mount. I went there to meet Vi and Ray Donovan (pictured), and at their suggestion stayed for an afternoon session to see for myself. Their ...

Plans to expand HMP Parc to create space for more prisoners have now been handed in to local Bridgend Council by the Ministry of Justice. The proposal is for a new “K-shaped houseblock” for an ...