A prisoner who murdered a fellow inmate in a dispute over a vape debt has been jailed for life. The 27-year-old punched ...

An inmate in HMP Littlehey died after the prison cancelled his cancer check-ups due to a lack of escort staff. A report into ...

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage (pictured) has pledged to create over 30,000 new prison places if he becomes the next Prime ...

It was always my intention that today I would write about my latest morning in Pentonville as I wanted to describe this ...

Reading the Mailbag ‘Let prisoners fight in Ukraine’ (April) made me think back to the last general election when the ...

Whilst political attention often centres on the NHS and the visible front line of our healthcare system, a disturbing silence ...

When the National Smoke Free Policy was brought into place, specific measures were set in place to support prisoners of those ...

I write this letter regarding the state of the food we get in HMP. Here at Featherstone it is absolutely disgusting with no protein whatsoever. All we get is a small sausage roll or a scruffy ...

Every month I read, in this paper, articles on how unprofessional prison officers are and the wrongdoings they are in the ...

The Government proposes that building 14,000 more prison places will address the overcrowding crisis in British gaols.

I found the Mailbag from J Cook (‘Buddhism ignored’, July) somewhat perplexing as it does not fit with my experiences of ...

Prison officers carried out “inappropriate and disproportionate” restraint on a prisoner moments before his death, an inquest has found. Unacceptable language used by officers at the time of the ...