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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Over 70 pieces of art produced by prisoners in HMP Inverness have gone on public show at Dornoch Cathedral. Hundreds visited the exhibition when it ran from 21 to 25 July. Dornoch, in Sutherland, ...

Two men have been jailed after admitting using drones to smuggle drugs into prisons. The men, one aged 40 and the other 38, were sentenced to three years and eight months’ imprisonment, and two ...

Recently-published offender management statistics have shown that the IPP Action Plan has not led to significant improvements for those in prison under the abandoned sentence, years over tariff.

Ministry of Justice figures published last week for the use of offending behaviour programmes by the Probation Service show ...

The HMP Leeds Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) says it is very concerned at the large number of self-inflicted deaths at ...

The Northern Ireland Prison Service (NIPS) said last week that it is “highly likely” that a disused block in the prison will have to be reopened due to the rising numbers of inmates.  The unit, ...

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