Today I am taking a day off from recording depressing news about our prisons. I want to celebrate some great initiatives and ...

Award-winning pianist Clare Hammond and composer Michael Betteridge are giving prisoners the opportunity to compose piano ...

A drug dealer caught with tablets and Spice in his cell has been given additional time. The 44-year-old man was jailed in ...

Recently-published offender management statistics have shown that the IPP Action Plan has not led to significant improvements ...

The HMP Leeds Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) says it is very concerned at the large number of self-inflicted deaths at ...

The most widely-used ‘restorative justice’ programme, which brings prisoners face-to-face with victims to show the harm ...

Ministry of Justice figures published last week for the use of offending behaviour programmes by the Probation Service show ...

Investing in community mental health services would help to ease the pressure on the prison system by diverting more people ...

Female prison governors face sexism and ‘boys club’ attitudes from their senior male colleagues, according to the findings of ...

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage (pictured) has pledged to create over 30,000 new prison places if he becomes the next Prime ...

Over 70 pieces of art produced by prisoners in HMP Inverness have gone on public show at Dornoch Cathedral. Hundreds visited ...

An inmate in HMP Littlehey died after the prison cancelled his cancer check-ups due to a lack of escort staff. A report into ...