We are always pleased to receive letters updating us on stories we have covered in recent times. We are particularly ...

Having been made aware of pictures leaked to the BBC of the enormous mushrooms that grow from the walls here at HMP Frankland ...

Police officers, probation officers and other public servants love to word their reports which merely serve to showcase their ...

Learning from my brother before I came to prison, I briefly played the drums. I never thought much about it – then I came to ...

Why are inmates in prison that are diagnosed with terminal cancer kept in prison for the last few months, or even days, when ...

Dozens of prisoners have been temporarily moved out from their cells at HMP Liverpool. The Ministry of Justice has confirmed ...

A prisoner in HMP Birmingham has been found guilty of murdering his cellmate. The 43-year-old man strangled Tajinder Kular on ...

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 ...

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

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 activity at HMP Altcourse, where she had worked as a prison officer. The ...