Norway’s crime rate is among the lowest in Europe and its rates of imprisonment and reoffending are among the lowest in the world. Part of the answer to how the [...]
More than 6,000 gang members face being moved to tougher jails as part of a crackdown on organised crime in prisons. In his first speech on the prison crisis in [...]
Image by Mark Stevenson The UK’s prison population is now the highest in the European Union with almost 100,000 people behind bars, according to a new report. The [...]
The recent cold weather system dubbed ‘the Beast from the East’ brought freezing conditions to much of the UK. Roads ground to a halt, schools shut, towns were cut off [...]
2018 has already seen a string of convictions for illegal possession of mobile phones in prison, thanks to tougher search regimes and better technology. The following cases show how serious [...]
There are currently around 70 transgender prisoners in 70 of the 133 jails in England and Wales. Transgender people who are kept in prisons that are not reflective of the [...]
