New healthcare providers have been announced for prisons in the East Midlands after Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust withdrew from its contracts to provide care within the jails.

The chief executive of the miscarriage of justice watchdog, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC), has resigned after months of speculation after failings in the organisation were revealed ...

Within one week in late June, two significant reports were published. The first, by an expert panel established by the Howard League for Penal Reform, looked at ways of ending the imprisonment of ...

Hope is such a fragile thing. At its best, it is a motivator powerful enough to unite a nation, drive social change, and even push people past seemingly-insurmountable odds. What a uniquely human ...

Arrests after drones spotted Suspects have been arrested after drones were spotted at prisons in two separate incidents. At Lowdham Grange, staff found a package containing drugs and mobile phones ...

I am writing in response to a Mailbag from a prisoner at HMP Fosse Way (‘I’m scared to leave my cell, but they won’t deliver my meds’, June). Unfortunately, cases of people who are too scared to ...

Prison operator Serco has called for more searches of staff entering prisons, to combat the risk of corrupt individuals smuggling contraband into jails. The i Paper reported that the private ...

A 60-year-old prisoner who died of heart failure while serving his sentence was “badly let down” by the prison system, according to a report by the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman.  Maqsood Asif, ...

It is hard to believe that it’s now been three years since the England women’s football team lifted their first-ever UEFA trophy. The Lionesses, led by Dutch coach Serena Wiegman, who masterminded ...

I miss the times, when we would drive, M25 in the middle of the night I’d give you my life, coz like living a life, without you I’m not willing to try. I’m just speaking my mind, What I’m feeling ...

Your human and legal rights don’t end when you are imprisoned – although that is debatable. What is not debatable is your right to a minimum wage. Working for £3 per day not only is a breach ...

Sitting here wide awake reminiscing in my past. Thinking of the good old days that were never meant to last. My family meant the world to me & they still do to this day, I’ll never understand ...