I’m currently on remand here at my local prison, and I have been here a few times before. I have a couple of things that I ...

I have now served over 23 years of the last Labour government’s illegal two-strike life sentence. Now we have thousands serving the two-strike life sentence and thousands serving the Labour ...

Anyone who has to be released by the Parole Board will no doubt have to undergo a psychological assessment beforehand, but ...

Football fans will be well aware of the new branch of the national morality protection brigade, the “Celebration Police”. This group, not in uniform, appear on the media after matches moaning ...

Since returning to custody, the amount of support I have received feels life-changing. I was at an all-time low, but the help ...

I have read this paper many times. And I’ve read it with nearly 25 years’ shameful experience of prison life. I remember once being in treatment and the group facilitator wrote the word ...

I am writing in response to Graham Satchwell’s Mailbag titled ‘What’s wrong with Parc?’ (June 2024). The recent deaths have ...

During the 14 years the Conservatives were in power, from 2010 to 2024, there was a net increase of only 482 prison places in ...

A prisoner fooled staff into thinking he was asleep by putting a pumpkin and a boiler suit stuffed with clothes in his bed – before making a getaway. The man fled from North Sea Camp open prison ...

Boxing legend Frank Bruno visited HMP The Mount to share his story with prisoners during Black History Month. The former world heavyweight champion, 62, also spoke at length about his own mental ...

A 34-year-old man ran a drugs ring from his prison cell, helping to smuggle drugs into HMP Edinburgh where he was detained.

There were red faces all round at the Scottish Prison Service and Scottish Police Force after a woman was mistakenly sent to a men’s prison for one night. Police said the mistake had arisen because ...