Four more prisoners serving Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentences have taken their own lives, taking the total number to 94. Another 37 released IPPs took their own lives in the five ...

The Probation Service in England and Wales “has too few staff” with “too little experience and training” and leaves members of the public at risk, an official watchdog has found. Martin Jones, the ...

In February this year, the Princess of Wales visited HMP Styal and praised the support given to new mothers and their babies within the jail. Charlie Taylor, HM Chief Inspector of Prisons, and his ...

The head of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS), Teresa Medhurst, has apologised to the families of two young people who took their own lives, just months apart, in YOI Polmont in 2018. A Fatal Accident ...

Foreign national prisoners who cannot be deported may be tagged and made subject to a curfew after release. The Government ...

Stephen Bird was found dead from hanging in his cell in HMP Altcourse on 8 September 2023, just four days after having arrived at the prison. An investigation by the Prisons and Probation ...

Prisons in England and Wales are more full now than they were when Labour came to power last year – forcing the Government to bring back overnight stays in police cells for prisoners crowded out of ...

A watchdog has criticised the UK’s newest prison, HMP Fosse Way, over the way checks are made at the prison. It follows the death of Ashley Ferrie on 13 February 2024. Mr Ferrie, 35, was found to have ...

Excessive levels of radioactive radon gas have been found at a second English prison after the same problem forced the closure of HMP Dartmoor last year. A reliable source has told Inside Time that ...