A prisoner who escaped from an escort van on the way to court was found after three-day search. The 33 year old man escaped ...

The Scottish Prison Service (SPS) has been criticised for allowing a trans woman prison officer to carry out body searches of female visitors. Rhona Hotchkiss, former governor of Scotland’s ...

A trans woman prisoner serving a life sentence in the female section of HMP Edinburgh was convicted of assaulting a woman officer by forcibly pushing her up against the door. The incident happened ...

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.

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

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

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 ...

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

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