Scotland has a new Chief Inspector of Prisons. Sara Snell will take up her new role in early February 2025, replacing Wendy ...

Research into children’s understanding of sentencing practices has shown that many do not know they have reached the age of ...

Thousands of people on remand or on bail awaiting trial may lose the right to appear before a jury under plans reportedly being considered by Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood. Instead of having ...

Prisoners are being offered a sensory healing technique called ‘innerdance’ to tackle stress and boost well-being. The ...

In what appears to be a second breach of prison security within a month, confidential plans for new prisons have reportedly ...

A former prison officer from HMP Holme House has been jailed for 12 months after she admitted smuggling drugs into the prison ...

Sally Jameson switched from being a prison officer at HMP Moorland to becoming the MP for Doncaster Central. Now she finds ...

The first-ever construction workshop training programme in the women’s estate is set to launch at HMP Styal. The ...

The prison population of England and Wales is projected to increase to over 100,000 by March 2029 from the current total of ...

Between May 2010 and September 2024, only 1,005 places were added to the prison estate in England and Wales, according to a report from the National Audit Office (NAO), Whitehall’s spending ...

The cost of renovating all prisons in England and Wales to a ‘fair’ and fire-safe condition would be £2.8 billion, according ...

In 2012, the government updated the law to prevent dangerous offenders from hiding their identity by changing their name, etc ...