Darren Docherty was discovered dead in woodland near Stoke-on-Trent in August 2023, six days after leaving HMP Stoke Heath ...

The drugs crisis in English and Welsh prisons has reached “endemic” levels, “fostering a dangerous culture of acceptance that must be broken”, said the House of Commons Justice Committee. The prison ...

In the early 1990s, while working at the Maudsley Hospital in London, clinical and forensic psychologist Susan Young began to notice a troubling trend. Young people diagnosed with conditions such as ...

LONDON, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Britain's justice minister said on Thursday that a spike in prisoners being wrongly released from jail was unacceptable, as he and the government faced mounting pressure to ...

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's husband has urged the government to scale up efforts to return a jailed British couple from Iran ...

Prison officers are leaving the service by the thousand each year amid warnings of threats to their safety and “hardened ...

LONDON (Reuters) -A man convicted of terrorism offences won a legal challenge against the British government on Tuesday for being unlawfully held in segregation for 22 hours a day after prison guards ...

Extra checks will be carried out in prisons across England and Wales from Monday after a migrant sex offender was released in error last week. The government has ...

Prisons being on ‘crisis mode’ is harming efforts to reduce reoffending, MPs warn - A new Justice Committee report highlighted a number of factors undermining efforts to cut reoffending ...