On 26 March 2025 the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, presented the Spring Statement against a backdrop of a lack of economic ...

Every prison in England and Wales has an Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) – volunteers who check on how the prison is run and report back annually. Here are their latest findings.

Promoting reading and reading groups in prisons The report this month comes from HMP Frankland where members of the Champions for Reading group read Clare Mackintosh’s The Donor. It’s a story ...

In 1977, two similar spacecraft were launched from Cape Canaveral, in Florida. These were called Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. Voyager 2 was launched first, on 20 August, and Voyager 1 was launched a ...

Three women officers in their twenties have been convicted and sentenced in separate cases after entering into illicit ...

I am writing in response to the well-publicised Supreme Court ruling in the case brought by For Women Scotland. I am a trans ...

Prison-leavers who are recalled to jail for breaching their licences are to be re-released earlier, in a new Government drive ...

To be honest, I’m scared. I’ve only been in prison for a short while, but as a transgender woman I have already faced my fair ...

A former prison governor has been imprisoned for nine years having been found guilty of misconduct in a public office. The 42 ...

I read with keen interest the comments of DJM on food, sweatshop wages, and officers taking no interest at HMP Northumberland ...

I always used to believe the House of Lords should be abolished, and certainly that hereditary peers have no place in a ...

I have been told that 18-rated games are not allowed to be purchased and that this is a national HMPPS policy. However, no one can give me a reason why, since everyone in HMP is an adult and I ...