Andy Slaughter, Chair of the Justice Select Committee (JSC), has expressed “cautious optimism” about the future of the CCRC ...

A violent prisoner who had spent over 30 years behind bars cried “Who wants it?” before throwing a kettle of boiling water at ...

A baby died at Foston Hall women’s prison within 24 hours of birth in 2023 – but details were withheld from the public for a ...

Mark Fairhurst, National Chair of the Prison Officers’ Association, has called for the prison population to be halved. In an ...

Once again, I am going to use this space to publish an item that a reader has sent in. On this occasion it is Mark Clews, who ...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves (pictured) committed to spending £7 billion on building new prison places in a Spending Review which gave justice a more generous settlement than education or defence. The ...

These five UK tracks are among the most streamed prison-related songs of all time. Shaped by lived experience and the reality ...

National Prison Radio will be marking Windrush Day by broadcasting special shows to celebrate Caribbean culture. These shows ...

It’s dark outside, darker inside my head I feel awake when I should be in bed I try the door, but inside it’s locked I hear ...

HMP Downview Your Daddy is a soldier son, your Daddy’s gone to war His steady hands they hold his gun, his aim is keen and ...

A new-look digital guide to the Scottish justice system has been launched to help people understand the different processes ...

Families of inmates at two men’s prisons in England where people convicted of sexual offences (PCoSOs) are held on the same ...