The Scottish Government is considering a proposal to let prisoners remain on GP lists whilst serving their jail time. The ...

Every year the Oxford English Dictionary adds words to its publication that it says reflect changes in our language. In ...

Keeping prisoners in police cells under the emergency Operation Safeguard scheme costs four times more than keeping them in ...

What shocks me is the self-harm rate in this prison. It is disgusting. Some women cut their arms for attention, but the ...

Over the past few weeks here at HMP Whatton, we have had a severe outbreak of vomiting and diarrhoea. It was so severe that ...

Messages exchanged among staff at troubled Parc prison, and leaked to the media, show prison officers boasting about using ...

The Prison and Probation Ombudsman is now known as Independent Prisoner Complaint Investigations (IPCI), but changing the ...

I have been baffled for a number of years regarding the amount of wastage in prison, especially when it comes to tea bags. I ...

I am a transgender woman, currently serving a sentence here at HMP Dovegate. I write in relation to one among many issues that we trans women ensure in men’s prisons in this country: the strip ...

Upon reading my pre-parole dossier, I came across a comment made by my probation officer, which got me thinking. She wrote “[Shep] does well in prison, but struggles when he gets out into the ...

A trans woman prisoner serving a life sentence in the female section of HMP Edinburgh was convicted of assaulting a woman ...

A former prison governor was given a £12,000 Mercedes as a present by an ex-prisoner in her jail, a court heard last week.