The announcement by Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood that she is to abolish the role of Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) has led to concern about the security of funding for Restorative Justice ...

The Independent Monitoring Boards (IMBs) have stated that the Home Office is still failing to tackle the toxic culture and overuse of restraint in detention revealed by the Brook House inquiry ...

For seven years, retired solicitor Geoff Smith went into Wandsworth prison five days a week to help foreign national ...

None of the three young offender institutions (YOIs) in England provided children in their care with the education to which ...

Whilst politicians and the Press have been highlighting the number of people released too early from prison, it has now been ...

Sundeep Ghuman was murdered by his cellmate, a known violent racist. Last month a Coroner pointed to failings which led to ...

Two inquests into deaths in prisons are underway in which errors have been exposed, whilst the Government has been forced to pay compensation for failures after a third prisoner lost his life in jail.

A 20-year-old prisoner assaulted a prison officer at HMP Deerbolt following a routine shower procedure, striking the member of staff in the face and fracturing his jaw. The attacker maintained that ...

A prison is struggling to organise 11-a-side football matches because prisoners are frightened to mix with others for fear of being attacked, a watchdog has revealed. The threat of violence has ...