A specialist unit of the Prison Service which tackles outbreaks of disorder in jails in England and Wales has seen call-outs ...

Tracking devices inserted under offenders’ skin, robots assigned to contain prisoners and driverless vehicles used to transport them were among measures proposed by technology companies to ...

Senior MPs from the Conservative Party and from Reform UK have proposed new ideas for prison policy – none of which are ...

A woman has been sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court to 10 months in prison after an investigation into illegal smuggling ...

The chief executive of the miscarriage of justice watchdog, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC), has resigned after ...

New healthcare providers have been announced for prisons in the East Midlands after Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation ...

I am writing in response to a Mailbag from a prisoner at HMP Fosse Way (‘I’m scared to leave my cell, but they won’t deliver ...

Arrests after drones spotted Suspects have been arrested after drones were spotted at prisons in two separate incidents. At ...

Hope is such a fragile thing. At its best, it is a motivator powerful enough to unite a nation, drive social change, and even ...

Prison operator Serco has called for more searches of staff entering prisons, to combat the risk of corrupt individuals ...

A 60-year-old prisoner who died of heart failure while serving his sentence was “badly let down” by the prison system, ...

Within one week in late June, two significant reports were published. The first, by an expert panel established by the Howard ...