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 Kier Starmer’s premiership ...

Dr Alice Jill Edwards (pictured), a United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Degrading Treatment or ...

To those like me who suffer from incontinence, you are not alone. Managing my condition was always difficult on the outside, ...

Prisons have a habit of reducing complex human distress to a thinking error. That is not to say cognitive behavioural therapy ...

The Legal Ombudsman: is it an effective complaints body? In nearly every prison, the same story can be heard over and over.