Andy Burnham, the Mayor of Greater Manchester, is reportedly seeking to close HMP Manchester, better known as Strangeways, ...

Two prisoners who ran a drug supply network from their cells using smuggled-in mobile phones have each been sentenced to an extra 10 years in jail. The men, aged 33 and 37, were the subject of a ...

One of the houseblocks in this prison has had no heating for weeks and weeks. Our electricity trips out constantly, there are ...

There were 64 deaths in Scottish prisons in 2024, marking a 60 per cent increase on the previous year’s figure and making ...

An employment tribunal has found that a Black former prison officer suffered racist abuse from colleagues at Swaleside high-security prison in Kent. Uzo Mbonu, 53, who was born in Nigeria, says he ...

It was like a burnt matchbox in the sky It was black and long, and burnt in the sky You saw it through flowering stumps of ...

Freed prisoners who commit further lower-level offences such as shoplifting should not be automatically recalled to prison, ...

National Prison Radio will be broadcasting interviews and shows packed with ideas and inspiration about keeping your mental ...

Review of DHL’s canteen looking at prices and accuracy of orders Prison Service deal with BT sees price of phone calls cut by ...

In Inside Time’s monthly recipe column, a prison nutritionist provides ideas for creating your own tasty and wholesome dishes ...

Woman who are placed on the Basic regime as punishment for breaking prison rules are being allowed to keep their in-cell ...

BBC films in women’s jails A BBC crew went into two Scottish prisons to film a documentary about the lives of women behind ...