A gang has been jailed after teaming up with a corrupt prison officer to smuggle drugs, mobile phones, and USB sticks ...

A Green Party candidate running for election to the Scottish Parliament has said she wants to abolish prisons. Kate Nevens ...

A Coroner has expressed concern that prisoners at HMP Swaleside were able to mute a cell’s emergency bell before its occupant was found unresponsive inside. Ian Potter, Area Coroner for Kent and ...

A prisoner who seriously assaulted a prison officer leaving him with second-degree facial burns has been handed an 11-year ...

Prison inspectors have warned of a worsening crisis of people with severe mental health problems being trapped within prisons ...

Campaigners against endless Order for Lifelong Restriction (OLR) sentences have raised their concerns in a meeting with the ...

The Prison Reform Trust (PRT) has expressed alarm at an increase in the number of young adults serving longer and longer ...

The Chief Inspector of Prisons has called for prisoners who deal drugs behind bars to be isolated in the same way as people ...

The Prison Service has paid out compensation 53 times in the past three years to prisoners who were assaulted by staff in ...

Unsafe levels of radioactive radon gas have reportedly been detected at 16 prisons in England and Wales. The Prison Service was forced to close HMP Dartmoor in 2024 due to the presence of radon, ...

Freedom Through Fitness is a movement-led rehabilitation programme designed to help individuals build discipline, resilience ...

The Government is committed to providing 14,000 new prison places by 2031. This involves building four giant prisons and ...