On VP (Vulnerable Prisoner) wings in prisons across the country, there are prisoners who have committed crimes against girls ...

At three years of age, I was taken away from a relatively safe home by social services and placed into a children’s home. A ...

I seek clarity via your excellent newspaper. I have read with interest various articles in relation to being allowed books ...

This prison relies heavily on weak, uncorroborated, irrelevant and at times frankly ridiculous intelligence produced by ...

There is a type of mourning that happens in here that has nothing to do with grief. It is the mourning for a world we no ...

I put in the relevant application for my partner to send me a book direct from the suppliers Waterstones. The book (pictured) is called Nuclear War: A Scenario, by Annie Jacobsen. This application ...

Foreign national prisoners in Scotland face a complex and often unclear legal situation. While deportation powers are ...

I’m stuck in a time-loop, pen on the pad, While the world’s gone digital, crazy, and mad. I’m dreaming in 4G, but living in ...

A man has been convicted of the 2003 rape for which innocent man Andrew Malkinson spent 17 years in jail.  On 17 April a ...

The Howard League for Penal Reform has announced the appointment of Dame Anne Owers as its new Chair.  Dame ...

MPs on the all-party Justice Select Committee held the first hearing of an investigation into care and welfare within the ...

A training scheme called HMP Academies launched three years ago by the Ministry of Justice has been abandoned after it was ...