The UK’s first all-electric prison has officially opened in York. HMP Millsike, a Category C resettlement prison with a capacity for 1,500 prisoners, is part of the MoJ’s new prisons ...

“Rather than repeating all the mistakes of the past, the government should develop a long-term plan to contain and then reduce the prison population,” he added. “This would allow it to close ...

Pia Sinha worked in prisons for 24 years before being appointed CEO of the charity Prison Reform Trust and she describes herself as a “ridiculously optimistic” person, who believes the prisons ...

MPs have warned that UK prisons could run out of space by early 2026 due to ineffective government measures in boosting necessary capacity. The grand ambitions of the 2021 initiative aiming to ...

The Government is reintroducing emergency measures for prisons after running out of cells despite releasing thousands of offenders early. Shabana Mahmood, Labour’s Justice Secretary, has been ...

“The only way you can address that is the very large number of people we’ve got in prison who are in there for a reasonable length of time, and whether they need to spend all of that time ...

A new play by an arts organisation that works with prisoners and staff in UK prisons will explore society's relationship to punishment. Punishment Acts is set in a fictional prison and will ask ...