MP Liverpool has recorded the highest level of positive drug tests of any reception prison, according to an inspection report ...

Crumbling buildings and staff shortages are having a “profound impact” on the ability of prisons to deliver rehabilitation, ...

Sodexo-run HMP Addiewell has the highest number of self-harm cases and prisoner assaults in Scotland. Figures released to the ...

Charity chiefs and criminal justice experts have submitted a joint open letter to Justice Secretary David Lammy calling for ...

A prison officer who formed relationships with two prisoners at HMP Coldingley and had sex with one of them in the prison’s ...

Eating from blue plastic crockery (pictured) is as much a part of the prison experience as wearing grey tracksuits and ...

New visa rules could force 2,600 prison staff to leave their jobs at jails in England and Wales and return to their homelands ...

On Sunday 21 September the Lord Chancellor and Deputy Prime Minister, David Lammy, announced plans to improve the safety of ...

I’ve wasted that much time in jail my brother Reggie is five and I barely know him. I’ve seen so many unthinkable things in ...

The Scottish Prison Service (SPS) failed to spot that a man who it employed as a prison officer had a criminal record for ...

Prisoners and staff at HMP Stafford commemorated Remembrance Sunday in front of a replica Cenotaph they made themselves. The ...

A police force has begun screening people in custody for ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) – and found that 80 ...