In a shake-up of the men’s estate as the Prison Service struggles with record numbers on remand, two resettlement prisons will be converted into reception prisons. Holme House in Stockton on Tees, ...

The family of a man who died in prison have said that nobody should be treated the way that he was. Wayne Bayley died in May ...

A majority of the public believe that women make up 30 per cent or more of the prison population – rather than the true figure of only 4 per cent, an opinion poll has found. The Sentencing Academy, a ...

A female former prison guard who formed a relationship with an inmate, and fell pregnant to him after he was released, has ...

More than a third of investigations into assaults against prison staff are dropped before the end of the process, according ...

Lord Woodley (pictured), recently announced Chair of the Westminster Commission on Joint Enterprise, has told Inside Time in ...

During a House of Lords debate on the second reading of Lord Woodley’s Bill calling for resentencing for those in prison on ...

Government officials are investigating what has been described as a major security leak of detailed prison layouts which ...

Excluding prisoners from early release schemes because their convictions are for sexual offences or domestic abuse could be a ...

The prison system is “teetering on the edge of disaster”, with prisoners held in crumbling buildings awash with drugs and violence, the Prisons Minister has warned. Lord Timpson delivered his damning ...

More than half of all people sent to prison have a learning difficulty or disability (LDD), new Government figures suggest. Among more than 20,000 prisoners who enrolled on an education course at an ...

Jason turned to Christine, sneering, fist clenched around the fire-escape rail, shaking his head. ‘Could ...