For seven years, retired solicitor Geoff Smith went into Wandsworth prison five days a week to help foreign national ...

The announcement by Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood that she is to abolish the role of Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) has led to concern about the security of funding for Restorative Justice ...

The Independent Monitoring Boards (IMBs) have stated that the Home Office is still failing to tackle the toxic culture and overuse of restraint in detention revealed by the Brook House inquiry ...

Whilst politicians and the Press have been highlighting the number of people released too early from prison, it has now been ...

Sundeep Ghuman was murdered by his cellmate, a known violent racist. Last month a Coroner pointed to failings which led to ...

None of the three young offender institutions (YOIs) in England provided children in their care with the education to which ...

Two inquests into deaths in prisons are underway in which errors have been exposed, whilst the Government has been forced to ...

In 1959, the late, great Tony Hancock appeared in a parody of the classic film, Twelve Angry Men. Hancock was the foreman of ...

A 20-year-old prisoner assaulted a prison officer at HMP Deerbolt following a routine shower procedure, striking the member ...

Police have launched an investigation after three prison officers were injured during a stabbing incident at HMP Isle of ...

Tuesday 25 November saw the first-ever Children with a Parent in Prison Day marked in the UK. Schools, charities, and ...

The Chair of a prison watchdog was dismissed by Prisons Minister Lord Timpson the day after the publication of a ...