Award-winning pianist Clare Hammond and composer Michael Betteridge are giving prisoners the opportunity to compose piano ...

A drug dealer caught with tablets and Spice in his cell has been given additional time. The 44-year-old man was jailed in ...

Investing in community mental health services would help to ease the pressure on the prison system by diverting more people ...

Female prison governors face sexism and ‘boys club’ attitudes from their senior male colleagues, according to the findings of ...

The most widely-used ‘restorative justice’ programme, which brings prisoners face-to-face with victims to show the harm ...

Recently-published offender management statistics have shown that the IPP Action Plan has not led to significant improvements ...

I found the Mailbag from J Cook (‘Buddhism ignored’, July) somewhat perplexing as it does not fit with my experiences of ...

The Government proposes that building 14,000 more prison places will address the overcrowding crisis in British gaols.

Plans to expand HMP Parc to create space for more prisoners have now been handed in to local Bridgend Council by the Ministry of Justice. The proposal is for a new “K-shaped houseblock” for an ...

Every month I read, in this paper, articles on how unprofessional prison officers are and the wrongdoings they are in the ...

Ministry of Justice figures published last week for the use of offending behaviour programmes by the Probation Service show ...

Whilst political attention often centres on the NHS and the visible front line of our healthcare system, a disturbing silence ...