A unique exhibition is shining a spotlight on miscarriages of justice – with a display of hand-sculpted busts of men and women who have been wrongly convicted over the centuries. The artist and ...

Eight prisoners at HMP Addiewell were rushed to hospital in the space of 24 hours after apparently taking ‘pink cocaine’. The ...

Restricted regimes and self-harm at Eastwood Park women’s prison are a matter of “concern”, the jail’s Independent Monitoring ...

Private cash allocations for prisoners have been increased, meaning that those who have money sent to them by family and ...

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

A prisoner who carried out a series of attacks on prison officers with homemade plastic weapons has been locked up indefinitely under the Mental Health Act. The 38-year-old man repeatedly attacked ...

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

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 ...

The Governor of Wandsworth prison has agreed to speak at a public meeting called by campaigners demanding improvements to his jail. Andy Davy, who was appointed to his post in June 2024, will ...

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

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