The Scottish Prison Service (SPS) has confirmed that there have 27 been “liberations in error”, where people have been ...

International best-selling author Lee Child has visited prisoners as part of a scheme to raise literacy levels inside jails.

The Scottish Prison Service (SPS) is developing a new policy to prevent suicides behind bars, which it says will be “bold and ...

The number of serious offences committed by people on licence have risen to the highest level since records began.  There ...

A man from Northern Ireland who left HMP Hydebank Wood in 2002 without permission, while serving a sentence for narcotics ...

The Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) has referred a man’s murder conviction to the Court of Appeal ...

A study of six prisons with ‘drug-free wings’ found that in three of them, there were more drug incidents on the drug-free ...

Prisons and Probations Ombudsman Adrian Usher (pictured) has slammed three prisons in reports into deaths in custody, all ...

Three more prison staff have been arrested or convicted in relation to criminal offences – while new figures from the ...

We receive many strong rap entries each month, and we nominate our favourite as that month’s King (or Queen) of the Mic. Now, ...

The leader of Britain’s prison governors is warning that a new generation of agricultural drones could be used to airlift ...

Men serving long sentences at HMP Swaleside have produced a guide to help others in the same position. Their four-point plan ...