Scottish prisons are failing to provide sufficient nutritious food for inmates, a watchdog’s report has warned. Stephen ...

A cellblock with some of the best-quality prison accommodation in Scotland has lain empty for a decade whilst other jails in the country have struggled with overcrowding. HMP Grampian, in ...

The Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) held its annual ‘Open Board Meeting’ with the public watching via Zoom last week ...

Prisons Minister Lord Timpson has said that the backlog of offenders who need electronic tags has “now been reduced to normal ...

Nearly 40 men at HMP Deerbolt in County Durham are reported to have been taken seriously ill after using a mix of fentanyl ...

The Catholic Church has called for more prisoners to be allowed day release and spend time in open prisons, in order to ...

The Government has launched a major review of sentencing, to tackle the capacity crisis in jails – and it is looking for ...

A watchdog has warned that the prison estate is “crumbling” across England and Wales, causing a “high human cost which paints ...

Most prisoners in Scotland serving less than four years will from next February onwards be released after serving 40 per cent ...

The Government is aiming to train tens of thousands of prisoners so they can fill labour shortages in a major drive to ...

Prison ‘cheese’ is 79% water, palm oil, and starch It can’t legally be called cheese on menus  Now Trading Standards have ...

This prison represents itself as safe and progressive, with a fully-mixed mains and VP population. It requires constant ...