Adrian Usher, the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman, has pointed the finger at a number of prisons, and their method of dealing ...

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

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

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

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

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

The death of a man two days after he left HMP Lincoln could not have been prevented, according to a report from the Prisons ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...