Prisoners who spend the night in Scottish police cells are to be asked to rate their stay. The “customer user experience ...

The new early release scheme has begun, applying to most people serving sentences of under four years, with some offences ...

The number of fires in prison cells leapt last year, raising concerns over the lack of fire safety equipment in jails.

Older prisoners should be moved out of prisons and into secure care homes, a report by a leading charity has suggested.

A brain-damaged man who was jailed for life in 1991 over the fatal shooting of a shopkeeper has had his murder conviction ...

A decision to cut the length of time high-risk offenders spend in probation hostels after their release from prison poses a ...

MPs have issued a fresh call to reform the joint enterprise legal interpretation, which has seen groups of friends and associates collectively punished for the crimes of an individual. Spearheaded ...

I would like to draw attention to the active discrimination against Muslim prisoners who wish to attend Friday prayers in ...

The Ministry of Justice has listed its ministers, and their responsibilities, after Labour’s election landslide on July 4.

I have been recalled to prison for the second time, unlawfully, by my local probation service, Selly Oak in Birmingham. I ...

A serving prisoner who played a leading role in organising the production and supply of drugs in a number of prisons has been ...

As part of our ongoing outreach work in prisons and young offenders’ institutes, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) ...