Award-winning pianist Clare Hammond and composer Michael Betteridge are giving prisoners the opportunity to compose piano ...

A drug dealer caught with tablets and Spice in his cell has been given additional time. The 44-year-old man was jailed in ...

Investing in community mental health services would help to ease the pressure on the prison system by diverting more people ...

The most widely-used ‘restorative justice’ programme, which brings prisoners face-to-face with victims to show the harm ...

Female prison governors face sexism and ‘boys club’ attitudes from their senior male colleagues, according to the findings of ...

Plans to expand HMP Parc to create space for more prisoners have now been handed in to local Bridgend Council by the Ministry of Justice. The proposal is for a new “K-shaped houseblock” for an ...

Last year I visited a Sycamore Tree course at HMP The Mount. I went there to meet Vi and Ray Donovan (pictured), and at their suggestion stayed for an afternoon session to see for myself. Their ...

The HMP Leeds Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) says it is very concerned at the large number of self-inflicted deaths at ...

Ministry of Justice figures published last week for the use of offending behaviour programmes by the Probation Service show ...

An inmate in HMP Littlehey died after the prison cancelled his cancer check-ups due to a lack of escort staff. A report into ...

A prisoner who murdered a fellow inmate in a dispute over a vape debt has been jailed for life. The 27-year-old punched ...

Two men have been jailed after admitting using drones to smuggle drugs into prisons. The men, one aged 40 and the other 38, were sentenced to three years and eight months’ imprisonment, and two ...