A prison which kept its in-cell phones switched off for most of the day and limited residents to 60 minutes of calls per day ...

Scotland has scrapped its policy of housing transgender women in female prisons and begun transferring them back to the male ...

Faced with a plague of rats, staff at Wetherby Young Offender Institution came up with an unusual solution: pet ferrets. The ...

The Royal Literary Fund (RLF), the world’s oldest literary charity, has announced a programme of events in prisons as part of ...

A Muslim charity has published a report showing that Muslim prisoners are more likely to be discliplined for breaking prison ...

The boss of Serco has revealed that he was assaulted by prisoners “a number of times” at one of the jails that the company ...

The trade union representing the majority of staff working in probation has passed a motion of no confidence in the ...

An estimated 6,000 prisoners will be released earlier than planned from English and Welsh jails in 10 monthly tranches, ...

A former gang member and addict who spent years trapped in a cycle of drugs, alcohol, violence and prison has written a book ...

Following the latest in a programme of inspections of public protection measures in probation, Martin Jones, HM Chief ...

Inspectors visiting Parc Young Offender Institution (YOI) were impressed by what they say is the best YOI in England and ...

The latest report on HMP Lowdham Grange by HM Inspectorate of Prisons (HMIP) shows “considerable improvements” according to ...