A prison worker and her mother have been jailed over their involvement in a plot to put an inmate who was a drug smuggler “in ...

An environmental protestor recently released from a women’s prison after serving time for her role in a Just Stop Oil ...

A former prison governor was given a £12,000 Mercedes as a present by an ex-prisoner in her jail, a court heard last week.

Prisons have paid out almost £50 million in the past five years to staff who suffered injuries at work. The Ministry of ...

A prisoner who escaped from an escort van on the way to court was found after three-day search. The 33 year old man escaped ...

Prisons fail to deal speedily with day-to-day basics such as requests by prisoners for toilet paper, according to a report by ...

A trans woman prisoner serving a life sentence in the female section of HMP Edinburgh was convicted of assaulting a woman officer by forcibly pushing her up against the door. The incident happened ...

More than 1,000 people are in prison for cannabis-related offences in England and Wales, the Government has said. The figure ...

Average prisoner pay is £11.62 per week Lowest-paid ‘can afford one 20-minute phone call’ A survey of prisoners’ pay carried ...

The Open University provides a lifeline for prisoners seeking to take degree courses, with around 2,000 students behind bars ...

Women in prison will be given access to hairdryers, hair straighteners and salons in a drive to reduce levels of self-harm.

Ernest Drucker (1940-2025) was a public health researcher who believed that punishment does not – and could never – solve ...