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

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

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

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

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

I can’t ever see there will be a more convenient and purposeful time to get rid of IPP sentences for good and to make them history. Labour now has the opportunity to put right the mess they ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...