Stephen Parkinson, the head of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), told MPs on the Commons Justice Committee that a CPS ...

In three separate cases, people have been convicted or sentenced for smuggling contraband into men’s prisons in England. In ...

Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain, has been granted a posthumous conditional pardon 71 years after her death ...

In his last annual report before his term as Chief Inspector of Prisons ends, Charlie Taylor says long lock ups and poor ...

The Council of Europe anti-torture committee has criticised the Scottish Government over the overcrowded conditions in its ...

A man who spent more than five years in prison before having his false conviction overturned has had his compensation claim ...

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In his third Annual Report, published last week, Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO) Adrian Usher shared his most serious ...

A 27-year-old administrative staff member at HMP Moorland, near Doncaster, shared confidential details about a male prisoner ...

Prison Reading Groups (PRG) was created in 1999 to set up, support and fund informal reading groups in prisons.  We currently ...

Restorative Justice groups around the country have called on the Ministry of Justice to change its newly-issued “presumption ...

A homeless ex-prisoner was found dead in a car park just days after being released from HMP Durham. Jamie Graham, 28, was ...