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 ...

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

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

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

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

The shadow of indeterminate sentences looms large within the UK’s penal system, a stark contrast to the approaches of many European nations. While open-ended detention exists elsewhere, the sheer ...

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