A 59-year-old senior prison officer who sexually assaulted two women colleagues whilst he was working at HMP Hewell in January 2023 has been convicted, but avoided a prison sentence. His trial at ...

The lack of regulation over the use of expert witnesses in English courts could be leading to miscarriages of justice, senior politicians and lawyers have told The Guardian newspaper. Former ...

The impact of overcrowding on safety in prisons was highlighted in a hard-hitting national annual report from the Independent ...

The campaign group Justice for Innocent Men, Scotland (JIMS) staged a demonstration outside the Supreme Courts in Edinburgh ...

As Elon Musk continues with his efforts to build rockets that will take humans to Mars, though it is difficult to understand why, a professor from Bristol has found that a spell in prison might ...

A mother of six who was caught passing a package containing Spice and cannabis to a man in HMP Berwyn has been spared prison.

At a time when many charities are sadly no longer in existence due to both the reduction of grant funding and the increase in ...

A report on troubled HMP Lowdham Grange by Chief Inspector of Prisons Charlie Taylor, published last week, says that there ...

A former prison officer who suffered a serious assault whilst on duty has gathered 40,000 signatures on a Parliamentary ...

Criminals who refuse to appear at sentencing hearings should be gagged and restrained to force them to face their victims, ...

The Independent Prison Monitors (IPMs) in Scotland have published their latest annual reports, detailing their findings from ...

Gym on the wing Fed up with waiting to get to the gym? At one prison, the gym has come to the wing. An ‘exercise space’ has ...