The Government has abandoned a controversial plan to publish the names and photos of people sentenced to do unpaid work in ...

Andy Slaughter, has said he is disappointed that of 29 recommendations made by the JSC to tackle the drugs crisis in prisons, ...

A 29-year-old woman who worked as a prison officer at HMP Peterborough pleaded not guilty to a range of offences at Cambridge ...

A prisoner in Scotland who failed to return to jail from an approved home visit has been traced after four days.  The 36-year ...

Unlock, the charity which supports and advocates for people with criminal records to be able to move on positively in their ...

Some Scottish prisons have been described as “dangerously out of control” in a report produced by the Criminal Justice ...

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The BBC has been accused of pulling out of an agreement to publicise charities which support children whose parents are in ...

Assaults on prison officers are not taken as seriously as assaults on police, a watchdog has claimed. The Independent ...

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