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 ...

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

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

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

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

Whilst political attention often centres on the NHS and the visible front line of our healthcare system, a disturbing silence ...

Plans to expand HMP Parc to create space for more prisoners have now been handed in to local Bridgend Council by the Ministry of Justice. The proposal is for a new “K-shaped houseblock” for an ...

Last year I visited a Sycamore Tree course at HMP The Mount. I went there to meet Vi and Ray Donovan (pictured), and at their suggestion stayed for an afternoon session to see for myself. Their ...

Reading the Mailbag ‘Let prisoners fight in Ukraine’ (April) made me think back to the last general election when the ...

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

When the National Smoke Free Policy was brought into place, specific measures were set in place to support prisoners of those ...