Prison separates families, and that can be hard to bear. Whether you are in a partnership that is strong, or perhaps separated with the other partner being the main carer for your kids, you want ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

Cell floors holding on to traces of multiple DNA, Forensically speaking evidence of many an inmate’s stay. If walls had ...

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 training scheme called HMP Academies launched three years ago by the Ministry of Justice has been abandoned after it was deemed to be poor value for taxpayers’ money. FE Week reported that the ...

Millions of voters will go to the polls on 7 May, but one candidate will not be knocking on any doors to canvass for votes – due to being in prison. Amu Gib, 30 (pictured), is running for a seat on ...