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 ...

Have you notice how quick people in authority are to assign negative labels to us? They normally take the form of ‘He or she is from such-and-such a background’. They are such-and-such a colour ...

Women in prison will be given access to hairdryers, hair straighteners and salons in a drive to reduce levels of self-harm.

I made a terrible mistake and feel I should apologise. It not only caused controversy but also cost the country a lot of money. In 2022, on 1 April (note the relevance of ...

A watchdog has criticised prisons for having different rules on what possessions are allowed – making things unfair for people who move between establishments. Adrian Usher, the Prisons and ...

The UK’s newest jail, HMP Millsike (pictured), had a ceremonial opening on 27 March in advance of its first batch of 200 ...

Here at HMP Full Sutton, they have decided to photocopy all of our mail instead of giving us the originals. This includes all letters, cards, and photographs. They come to us at now on grainy ...

I am a 65-year-old man, and I have been at HMP Isle of Wight for over six years now, so I have plenty of experience of how ...

There are more than 3,500 people in prison in the UK over the age when they can draw their pensions, but an Act of Parliament from 1911, just three years after pensions were introduced, says they ...

A prisoner at HMP Maidstone was found dead in his cell despite staff having observed him lying on the floor during checks ...

Four more prisoners serving Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentences have taken their own lives, taking the total ...