Private prison contractors are leading the way when it comes to offering jobs to ex-prisoners, an investigation by the ...

Watchdog finds prisoners humiliated at hospitals Woman ‘cuffed to male officer in breast exam’ An NHS watchdog has found that ...

Staff at HMP Coldingley failed to seek medical attention for a prisoner who was reportedly found “naked on all fours, and barking like a dog” before he took his own life. Haydar Jefferies, 51, died in ...

The governor of a Scottish prison has told a local newspaper that “we put away too many people who annoy us rather than those ...

A former chair of the Youth Justice Board has warned that the gradual lengthening of prison sentences is to blame for the current capacity crisis in prisons. In a letter to The Guardian, Professor Rod ...

A prison has been slammed by a watchdog after the “truly shocking” death of a prisoner who set himself on fire in his cell when he had been trying to smoke Spice. Kevin Delahunty, 40, died in hospital ...

A female prison teacher who smuggled codeine into HMP Holme House for a prisoner and was found with a love letter from the ...