A human rights watchdog has told Inside Time that it has begun investigating Orders of Lifelong Restrictions (OLRs) – the endless sentences that are Scotland’s equivalent of IPP (Imprisonment for ...

Some prisons were still full even after the Government’s SDS40 early release scheme saw around 3,000 prisoners go home before ...

I am a transgender prisoner. Around 30 mains and VP prisoners applied to get married to their female partners on the outside, ...

Prisoners are being invited to take part in the world’s biggest garden wildlife survey this month – by counting birds from ...

I love to get articles sent by readers describing events and activities within their prisons. Partly because it saves me ...

This is an urgent matter: 600 prisoners at Hindley cannot have a cooked meal tonight. The kitchens are closed due to a ...

I am on F wing and we have no heating due to a boiler leak. The cells are freezing, as are the landings and the association ...

At some point in the near future, I should finally be leaving this horrendously-run prison. I have never seen such a set of ...

A prison officer filmed having sex with a prisoner in his cell (pictured) has been jailed for 15 months after admitting another incident with the same man on the same day. The 30-year-old woman, ...

Many prisoners I speak to often believe that they are in a ‘tax bubble’ whilst in prison and out of reach of HMRC. Well now ...

Open prisons are designed to help bridge the gap between life in prison and life in the community. It can help you to adjust ...

The last Conservative Cabinet minister to oversee prisons has admitted that political infighting prevented his party from ...