Jane Leech, interim national Chair of the Independent Monitoring Boards (IMBs), has written to the Prison Service raising the ...

Mitie, the FTSE-250 facilities management company which runs HMP Millsike and has a number of other contracts with the ...

Mothers whose children have faced prosecution under the doctrine of Joint Enterprise spoke out about their experiences at two ...

Computer company Coracle says that prisoners are improving their mental health by playing chess on their in-cell laptops. The ...

Labour MP Catherine McKinnell has been appointed as the Minister for Prisons and Probation to replace Lord Timpson, who ...

Seven young offenders who attacked two fellow prisoners at YOI Werrington have been sentenced to a total of a further 36 ...

Men at HMP Perth are restoring discarded bicycles to be donated to schoolchildren and families. Since last year the prison’s ...

A man serving a sentence for drug offences has been convicted of sexually assaulting a woman worker by putting his hand on ...

A major recruitment drive for new probation officers was launched in the name of Prisons and Probation Minister Lord Timpson ...

The Prison Reform Trust has said it is disappointed with the Government’s response to the Women’s Justice Board (WJB) ...

New Prime Minister Andy Burnham has halted plans for the early release of thousands of prisoners – sparking ‘chaos’ in the justice system. The plans, drawn up under Sir Keir Starmer’s premiership and ...