An environmental protestor recently released from a women’s prison after serving time for her role in a Just Stop Oil ...

A prison worker and her mother have been jailed over their involvement in a plot to put an inmate who was a drug smuggler “in ...

A prisoner who escaped from an escort van on the way to court was found after three-day search. The 33 year old man escaped ...

A former prison governor was given a £12,000 Mercedes as a present by an ex-prisoner in her jail, a court heard last week.

The Scottish Prison Service (SPS) has been criticised for allowing a trans woman prison officer to carry out body searches of female visitors. Rhona Hotchkiss, former governor of Scotland’s ...

A trans woman prisoner serving a life sentence in the female section of HMP Edinburgh was convicted of assaulting a woman officer by forcibly pushing her up against the door. The incident happened ...

Prisons fail to deal speedily with day-to-day basics such as requests by prisoners for toilet paper, according to a report by ...

A nurse at HMP Preston has been jailed for 20 months after she was convicted for her role in a ‘sophisticated criminal gang’ ...

The UK’s newest jail, HMP Millsike (pictured), had a ceremonial opening on 27 March in advance of its first batch of 200 ...

The Open University provides a lifeline for prisoners seeking to take degree courses, with around 2,000 students behind bars ...

Average prisoner pay is £11.62 per week Lowest-paid ‘can afford one 20-minute phone call’ A survey of prisoners’ pay carried ...

Women in prison will be given access to hairdryers, hair straighteners and salons in a drive to reduce levels of self-harm.