Success Story: Prison Book Ban Finally Overturned by Gove Chris Grayling, the Conservative’s previous Justice Secretary, was well-known for his ‘tough’ approach to the prison system. One of his more [...]
HMP Littlehey and Other UK Prisons: Unable to Cope with Elderly Inmates? In her recent blog post, Frances Crook, chief executive for the Howard League for Penal Reform, discusses a [...]
Prisons Up in Smoke: The Smoking Ban The government recently announced their plans to phase in a smoking ban across all 136 prisons in England and Wales, beginning next year. [...]
Britain’s ‘Death Row’? The Rise of Deaths in UK Prisons In 2014, a total of 240 inmates died behind bars. 86 of these were suicides, 4 were due to ‘unnatural [...]
Rehabilitation in UK Prisons: Which Methods Are Working… And Which Are Not? Rehabilitation is a complex issue, and one which never ceases to divide opinion. Some, most notably new Justice [...]
EXCLUSIVE: TB Breakout at YOI Swinfen Hall – The Truth In June 2015, news broke that there were three further cases of tuberculosis at YOI Swinfen Hall – bringing the [...]
