In a competition for readers, we asked you to tell us about someone who has helped you in prison. Winning entries described ...

A gang of seven men who used drones to smuggle drugs, weapons and mobile phones into prisons has been jailed.  According to ...

Boys in Young Offender Institutions (YOIs) are still not getting enough education and activity, official figures have shown.

The introduction of body-worn cameras to monitor confrontations between staff and prisoners in Scottish prisons is reportedly being resisted by prison officers who fear the recordings will be used ...

The Prisons and Probation Ombudsman, Adrian Usher, has published two reports which find that prisons failed men within them ...

Planning approval has been granted for the building of two new accommodation blocks at Leyhill open prison in Gloucestershire ...

The death of Soham murderer Ian Huntley following an assault inside a high-security prison has sparked a public debate over ...

A wheelchair-user who was held in a women’s prison a week past her release date and then discharged in the dark, without support or transportation, has been awarded £14,000 compensation. The woman ...

As Scotland grapples with overcrowded prisons by introducing another wave of emergency early releases, the country’s authorities have increased sentence lengths for one particular group of ...

A judge has said it was “astonishing” that an open prison granted unsupervised day release to a man already serving two life sentences for violent assaults on women, who went on to commit a third ...

A 21-year-old man who escaped from custody twice in a week whilst being treated at London hospitals has been detained in France.  Inside Time reported how he had first fled on 10 February from ...

Inside Time provides more coverage of the controversial issue of IPP (Imprisonment for Public Protection) sentences than any other publication, according to an analysis by the campaign group ...