When I came to HMP Belmarsh 18 years ago, it was standard policy that lifers were automatically entitled to a single cell.

I am prompted to write to you after reading a letter in the February issue re libraries in prison. I agree with the letter ...

For those of us who are category A lifers, there is very little hope of recategorisation or progression, let alone release.

I don’t really quite understand how it’s so hard for our King to house his de-titled brother. And possibly his redheaded wife. He does not have to reside in luxury. There’s ...

I saw on television that Reform UK leader Nigel Farage MP is planning to abolish the Equality Act 2010. That’s if he becomes ...

I think it is well worth reading, thinking about, and then reading again. I can’t help thinking that his views when ...

We inmates queue up to exchange our dirty kit for clean kit and bedding once a week, which we are all entitled to. Then, all ...

Prisons failing in one way or another seems to be nothing new, so there shouldn’t be any surprises, right? Well, currently my ...

In the mid-1990s, the United Kingdom faced a paradox. Violent crime rates began a historic decline, yet the justice system’s machinery went into overdrive. Crime was no longer framed as a social ...

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, which ...

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

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