The new early release scheme has begun, applying to most people serving sentences of under four years, with some offences ...

Prisoners who spend the night in Scottish police cells are to be asked to rate their stay. The “customer user experience ...

The number of fires in prison cells leapt last year, raising concerns over the lack of fire safety equipment in jails.

Older prisoners should be moved out of prisons and into secure care homes, a report by a leading charity has suggested.

The first day of the Labour Government’s early release scheme to tackle the capacity crisis in prisons shone a rare public ...

A brain-damaged man who was jailed for life in 1991 over the fatal shooting of a shopkeeper has had his murder conviction ...

More than £100,000 has been spent tackling rats and mice at failing Wandsworth prison – with only partial success. Following ...

A decision to cut the length of time high-risk offenders spend in probation hostels after their release from prison poses a ...

I would like to draw attention to the active discrimination against Muslim prisoners who wish to attend Friday prayers in ...

Scotland has shown that early releases do not necessarily solve capacity problems – with the country’s prisoner population ...

The Ministry of Justice has listed its ministers, and their responsibilities, after Labour’s election landslide on July 4.

A serving prisoner who played a leading role in organising the production and supply of drugs in a number of prisons has been ...