A former prison governor was given a £12,000 Mercedes as a present by an ex-prisoner in her jail, a court heard last week.

A nurse at HMP Preston has been jailed for 20 months after she was convicted for her role in a ‘sophisticated criminal gang’ ...

Prisons fail to deal speedily with day-to-day basics such as requests by prisoners for toilet paper, according to a report by ...

The Open University provides a lifeline for prisoners seeking to take degree courses, with around 2,000 students behind bars ...

April brings us professional snooker’s most prestigious tournament, the 2025 Cazoo World Championship, which brings together ...

Average prisoner pay is £11.62 per week Lowest-paid ‘can afford one 20-minute phone call’ A survey of prisoners’ pay carried ...

An ex-prisoner has been awarded £7,500 in damages after a judge found that he was unlawfully selected at random to undergo ...

The Open University provides a lifeline for prisoners, but an Inside Time investigation found that ex-prisoners seeking to study or attend degree ceremonies after release can get an unpleasant ...

A man who was granted early release from prison under the Government’s SDS40 scheme killed another man the day he walked out ...

Prisons have paid out almost £50 million in the past five years to staff who suffered injuries at work. The Ministry of ...

Ernest Drucker (1940-2025) was a public health researcher who believed that punishment does not – and could never – solve ...

I am writing in response to your article about prisoners with cancer (‘A deadly diagnosis’, Feb 2025), which I found very ...