Prisoners could be freed after serving just one-third of their jail terms under radical reforms proposed in a ...

A 38-year-old man has been given a life sentence for murder and been told he must spend a minimum of 35 years in prison after ...

More painful than giving birth.” That is how women in prison whose babies had been taken away from them describe the trauma, ...

A 49-year-old governor of HMP Swaleside has appeared at Medway Magistrates Court charged with attacking and attempting to ...

Both Home Secretary Yvette Cooper and Prisons Minister James Timpson have said they are urgently considering tightening rules on safety within prisons following an incident at HMP Belmarsh where a ...

The rise of organised criminal gangs who “corrupt” staff and enforce drug debts with violence “keeps me awake at night”, ...

A prisoner serving an endless sentence of Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) was found hanging in his cell after having ...

Peter Sullivan spent more than 38 years in jail in what has been described as the biggest miscarriage of justice in British ...

The Prisons and Probation Ombudsman has released a scathing report into the death of Frederick Heard in HMP Parc at the age ...

The long-awaited review by former Tory justice secretary David Gauke is anticipated to announce a radical change in ...

Reforms to deportation and removal rules will make it easier to remove foreign criminals committing crimes in the UK, ...

To be honest, I’m scared. I’ve only been in prison for a short while, but as a transgender woman I have already faced my fair ...