A crowded Boothroyd Room in Parliament heard how three men, all found to have been wrongly convicted and imprisoned for a ...

A man who set fire to cars belonging to prison staff at HMP Grampian on Christmas Day has been jailed. The 43-year-old ...

Three reports from Chief Inspector of Probation Martin Jones (pictured) were published last week. One, on the youth service in the London borough of Barking and Dagenham, is positive. The other ...

Inside Time exclusive Police forces across England and Wales have been told to stop recording the bank card security codes of people on the sex offender register, following a watchdog’s ruling ...

Inside Time exclusive Units offering a Scandinavian-style regime with additional staff, extra keywork sessions and communal dining are being launched at two struggling prisons in London. The ...

A 61-year-old former prison officer from HMP Garth has been sentenced to four months in jail having been caught smuggling £100,000 worth of drugs into the prison. She had worked in the waste ...

In their newly-published annual report, the Lay Observers say that “systemic” failures within courts are putting vulnerable individuals at risk.  Lay Observers are independent members of the ...

Prisoners at HMP Hewell came together to build a new storage shed after a park’s old unit, used to store equipment and essentials, began to fall apart. This had threatened the future of the ...

Delays for prisoners in accessing their stored property are fuelling problems of violence and debt in prisons, a report by inspectors has warned. Prisoners transferred between jails often spend ...

Inside Time exclusive Prisons Minister Lord Timpson (pictured) has said that rather than referring to prisoners as ‘offenders’, he prefers to use the term ‘colleagues’. An official Ministry of ...

Government contractor Serco has been accused of being “petty and vindictive”, after tearing down artworks carrying motivational messages that were intended to improve conditions for people held in ...

Strict conditions based on American “Supermax” prisons will be introduced for the most dangerous prisoners in England and ...