An investigation into the death of a prisoner at HMP The Mount has raised serious concerns about the ongoing supply of drugs, ...

A unique exhibition is shining a spotlight on miscarriages of justice – with a display of hand-sculpted busts of men and women who have been wrongly convicted over the centuries. The artist and ...

Eight prisoners at HMP Addiewell were rushed to hospital in the space of 24 hours after apparently taking ‘pink cocaine’. The ...

Restricted regimes and self-harm at Eastwood Park women’s prison are a matter of “concern”, the jail’s Independent Monitoring ...

Private cash allocations for prisoners have been increased, meaning that those who have money sent to them by family and ...

A prisoner who carried out a series of attacks on prison officers with homemade plastic weapons has been locked up ...

The Scottish Government is considering a proposal to let prisoners remain on GP lists whilst serving their jail time. The ...

The Prison and Probation Ombudsman is now known as Independent Prisoner Complaint Investigations (IPCI), but changing the ...

Every year the Oxford English Dictionary adds words to its publication that it says reflect changes in our language. In ...

Keeping prisoners in police cells under the emergency Operation Safeguard scheme costs four times more than keeping them in ...

What shocks me is the self-harm rate in this prison. It is disgusting. Some women cut their arms for attention, but the ...

Over the past few weeks here at HMP Whatton, we have had a severe outbreak of vomiting and diarrhoea. It was so severe that ...