Some prison leavers will penned in to ‘Restriction Zones’ enforced by GPS tags, under Government plans announced last week.

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

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

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

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

Contracts worth up to £1.5 billion for education in prisons in England have been awarded after a two-year bidding process – to three of the four existing providers. Novus, PeoplePlus and Milton ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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