Home detention would replace prison for some people if proposals from the Bar Council are accepted by the ongoing sentencing review being led by former Conservative justice secretary David Gauke.

Britain’s prisons are at risk of becoming like “Latin American jails” according to a letter published in The Times newspaper from three former prison governors. Ian Acheson, John Podmore, and ...

The Ministry of Justice has told Inside Time that a review of prison officer training, begun by Lord James Timpson before he took up his post as Prisons Minister in July, is being put together ...

The Court of Appeal has recently acquitted two people of Joint Enterprise. The first is a young man, Ademola Adedeji, 21, who was among 10 young Black men from Manchester whom prosecutors had ...

An investigation is underway at HMP Five Wells after the death of a second inmate in the space of 15 days during December.

Six men have been sentenced for attempting to operate a criminal enterprise whilst in prison. Some of the group were at the ...

The prison service is, for the first time, sponsoring skilled worker visas for overseas applicants. Jails are recruiting ...

The former chair of the independent monitoring board (IMB) at HMP Liverpool has been charged with smuggling cannabis and ...

Sometimes I get depressed when I read the morning newspapers. Not just by yet another dismal Arsenal report, but by the ...

Nottingham Coroner Laurinda Bower has expressed “serious concerns” that prison staff in HMP Lowdham Grange are either unaware ...

I hope this message finds you all well and firstly, thank you for providing a platform from which prisoners and prison life ...

Two pieces of positive news for women in prison. First, in the House of Lords, Parliamentary Under Secretary for Health and ...