Home detention would replace prison for some people if proposals from the Bar Council are accepted by the ongoing sentencing review being led by former Conservative justice secretary David Gauke.

Britain’s prisons are at risk of becoming like “Latin American jails” according to a letter published in The Times newspaper from three former prison governors. Ian Acheson, John Podmore, and ...

The Court of Appeal has recently acquitted two people of Joint Enterprise. The first is a young man, Ademola Adedeji, 21, who was among 10 young Black men from Manchester whom prosecutors had ...

The Ministry of Justice has told Inside Time that a review of prison officer training, begun by Lord James Timpson before he took up his post as Prisons Minister in July, is being put together ...

An investigation is underway at HMP Five Wells after the death of a second inmate in the space of 15 days during December. The Prisons and Probation Ombudsman, Adrian Usher, has reported that Reece ...

Six men have been sentenced for attempting to operate a criminal enterprise whilst in prison. Some of the group were at the ...

The former chair of the independent monitoring board (IMB) at HMP Liverpool has been charged with smuggling cannabis and mobile phones into the prison. The 61 year old woman appeared at Liverpool ...

The prison service is, for the first time, sponsoring skilled worker visas for overseas applicants. Jails are recruiting prison officers from Nigeria and other countries to plug shortages in a move ...