The scale of smuggling mobile phones into prison has been revealed by new figures released by the government. The Ministry of Justice said officers seized 873 phones, 458 SIM cards [...]
Plans to give some prisoners the vote have caused outrage, with one MP branding the proposal “idiotic”. Britain is the only western European nation with a blanket ban on prisoner [...]
Black and Muslim Prisoners Twice as Likely to Be Treated Badly Black and Muslim offenders are twice as likely to have negative experiences in jail than white inmates, according [...]
A six-hour riot at a Bedfordshire prison broke out after inmates were locked in their cells for 23 hours a day without soap or toilet paper, according to a [...]
Rioting at a high-security jail and the government’s decision to shelve their pledge to shut run-down jails highlight the enormous pressure the prison system is currently under. Dilapidated Victorian prisons [...]
The Prison Governors Association president ended her recent speech with the words, “Winston Churchill once said, ‘You measure the degree of civilisation of a society by how it treats its [...]
