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 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 ...

I urge the government to give inmates their medications back. Not everyone commits crime because they have an addiction to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Recent changes including the SDS40 scheme allow prisoners to be released early on a longer-but-precarious licence period. This makes space in the prison estate – but what a scam.  Once on licence ...

A man serving three life sentences was able to stab two officers on the maximum-security wing of high-security HMP Wakefield.