The day after the Chief Inspector of Prisons published his annual report criticising Government failures to tackle drugs in ...

Retired senior judge Sir Brian Leveson, who was tasked by the Government to look at ways to solve the backlog of cases in the criminal courts, has made radical proposals to change the system and ...

The Government must take drugs in prison more seriously, according to HM Chief Inspector of Prisons. He says enormous profits ...

Prisoners’ Education Trust brings you details of a subject you could study in your cell  These free introductory modules can ...

The Victim Contact Scheme (VCS) in England and Wales is a service designed to keep victims of certain crimes informed about what happens to the person convicted of the offence after they have been ...

I know that many of you plan to start up a business and go self-employed on release and others will also enter employment under PAYE. As you are aware you are entitled to earn £12,570 without ...

On Wednesday 14 May, the Lord Chancellor announced plans to change the amount of time some prisoners will spend in prison after being recalled. Under this new measure any prisoner serving a ...

In October 2024 the Lord Chancellor commissioned an independent review of sentencing to help address the growing prison population and other challenges faced by the criminal justice system in ...

My time spent in prison was never comfortable. I yearned to be free, and I could never quite fit in, and that’s what kept me ...

You may have heard that some prisoners will be moved to an open prison if they have 24 months or less to go on their sentence and meet a strict set of conditions, this is called the Temporary ...

The new, lower tariffs which prisoners are charged to phone their families can at last be revealed – after critics said that the cost still remains too high. From April 1, the price of making ...

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