A judge in Edinburgh High Court has been asked by the prosecution to consider adding an Order for Lifelong Restriction (OLR) ...

Parliament is on the verge of approving the long-delayed Hillsborough Law, which will impose a ‘duty of candour’ on public ...

An experts’ group from the United Nations has published a withering report condemning the UK Government for failing to scrap ...

Shortly before the early release of thousands of people from prison under the Sentencing Act 2026, the Ministry of Justice ...

Prisoners who break prison rules can be punished with the loss of social visits, under a new law introduced by the Government ...

When I heard that the Parliamentary Chess Club were going to visit HMP Wormwood Scrubs to play chess against the men in the ...

Lord Timpson (pictured) has resigned from his role as Prisons Minister and stepped down from the Government. He told the BBC ...

The Parole Board has reported a sharp drop in the proportion of prisoners it decides to release – while celebrating an ...

Declining availability of legal aid is forcing more people to represent themselves in court, creating an “unacceptably high ...

Work on a new prison to replace HMP Greenock will not start until at least 2031, according to Scottish media reports. That ...

Men from HMP Cardiff clubbed together to support a Physical Education Instructor (PEI) in his efforts to raise funds to help ...

The death of a prisoner at HMP Lindholme was referred to police for investigation, after it emerged that staff had falsified records of welfare checks. Stephen Baddeley was found unconscious in ...