A female prison officer at HMP Wealstun has been warned that she is facing a jail term after she admitted forming a ...

A Scottish prison officer who believed he was sending sexual messages to a child on a social media messaging app has been ...

Five people involved in an illicit plot to smuggle unknown, unidentified items into Northern Ireland’s HMP Maghaberry have been handed suspended jail sentences totalling 12 years. The two ...

It has cost a TikTok content maker over £650 to discover the rules on filming at jails after he admitted making a recording inside an open prison. Curtis Arnold admitted taking a photograph/making ...

The designer of Scotland’s new flagship women’s prison, HMP/YOI Stirling, has won a Royal Incorporation of Architects in ...

A scheme offering ‘chemical castration’ to deter sex offenders from carrying out further attacks is to be extended – and the Government is considering whether to make it compulsory. In a pilot scheme ...

The prison population of England and Wales has doubled since the 1990s – reflecting not an increase in the crime rate but, chiefly, longer sentences being passed by Parliament and handed down by ...

People sentenced to prison will serve just one-third of their time in custody, in a far-reaching move by the Government to tackle the capacity crisis in English and Welsh prisons. Their probation ...

Charlie Taylor, Chief Inspector of Prisons: “We welcome any reduction in the overcrowding putting huge pressure on our jails … We await with interest to see whether these proposals lead to a renewed ...

The head of Scotland Yard has warned that the Government’s plan to release prisoners earlier in their sentences will “generate a lot of work for police”. Sir Mark Rowley, the Metropolitan Police ...

An initiative encouraging prisoners to read resulted in one million pages being turned – with a little help from Inside Time. The ‘Who wants to be a reading millionaire?’ competition was devised by ...