About a quarter of prison places are unsafe, Ministry of Justice admits ...

People sentenced for similar offences are more likely to offend after a short prison sentence than if they had been given a community sanction.

Prisoners in one of Britain’s worst jails are routinely making and carrying weapons, a watchdog has revealed. Charlie Taylor, ...

The UK government is planning to broaden a pilot scheme allowing voluntary chemical castration for certain sex offenders, expanding from a handful of prisons in the south-west to around 20 prisons ...

The latest prison figures for England and Wales show nearly 40,000 offenders have been released early since September 2024, while recalls of inmates are at “historically high” levels and the rate of ...

Illicit drug use in prisons across England and Wales is causing widespread and growing harm, with knock-on effects for safety, rehabilitation, and NHS costs, a new watchdog report has warned. Around ...

Hadush Kebatu, from Ethiopia, was awaiting deportation after his sentencing, but a comedy of errors led to his release from Chelmsford prison. Mr Kebatu was meant to remain in custody, but instead was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Woking Female Convict Prison opened in 1869 [Woking History Society] Britain's first purpose built women's prison once stood on ...

Labour's radical plans to modernise youth prisons will take inspiration from Spain, where inmates are given schooling, train ...

Inmates are dying needlessly in Britain’s prisons because of a string of failures in their healthcare, The Independent can reveal. A damning review commissioned by the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman ...

Steve Forbes calls out the ugly crackdown on speech in Great Britain, pointing to the shocking arrests and convictions of people based on what they’ve said online. He urges the U.K. to reverse course.

Objective Drug-related problems (DRPs), which encompass medication errors (MEs), adverse drug reactions and adverse drug events (ADEs), represent significant challenges in healthcare settings. While ...