Eleven Approved Premises (AP) hostels that were supposed to have housed dangerous prison leavers during the early release of 4,500 prisoners in England and Wales are currently closed, according to ...

I have often wondered what people thought when stories that had been passed from one person to another began to be written ...

The Conservative MP for Fylde in Lancashire, Andrew Snowden, was assured in Parliament that his concerns over the growing ...

Everything from recent inspection reports to formal complaints points to an undeniable fact: the penal system is in a severe ...

The National Audit Office (NAO) has recently been critical of the management of the Probation Service. At this time, with the ...

To sort the prison crisis the Prison Service should get private businesses to invest in mini-factories, so prisoners are paid ...

Akhtar Uddin, a 35-year-old builder from London, was found dead at HMP Wandsworth on Christmas Day 2021. An inquest jury ...

I busted onto the wing, Prison issue clothes, “no kit” … An empty cash account too, wondering where I’ll fit… I see nothing ...

Can you imagine a world where there are no trees, where there is no shade? Can you ever think of a world with no joy, without ...

The walls may steal my freedom, but they’ll never own my soul! PTSD brings storms at night, and B.P.D can take its toll! Some ...

We read a wide range of things in our Shared Reading groups, but we often go back to the classics. Today we read from Anna ...

A 39-year-old married woman who had been working as a prison officer at HMP Long Lartin has been handed a nine-month prison ...