As one of thousands of inmates freed across the country as part of the government’s early-release scheme, Mr Richings claims many are being set up to fail by a disinterested prison system. It comes ...

The BBC finds gang warfare in jails is rife, and lack of space makes it difficult to keep rivals apart.

The Government has started to release an additional 1,100 prisoners early as part of a plan to ease overcrowding in prisons.

Almost all the men inside Whitemoor are serving life sentences, some what the legal system euphemistically calls “natural ...

The policy would require tens of thousands of extra prison places ... Wandsworth, Brixton and Pentonville jails could raise £1.6billion alone.

Almost nine in 10 young adults in the UK believe that removing a condom during sex without the other person's permission is ...

Drug dealers, fraudsters and burglars will be among more than 1,000 prisoners jailed for over five years who will be freed ...

The Government is launching a sentencing review that will consider options to hand offenders tougher punishments outside of ...

A grandfather jailed for violent disorder and abusing police at one of the riots held this summer in the UK has died in prison. Peter Lynch, 61, died on Saturday night, October 19. He was serving ...

The government has announced plans to launch a sentencing review to introduce tougher punishments for offenders that don't involve jail time, in an effort to ease prison overcrowding. Justice ...

said he had been in prison for seven years for kidnap and grievous bodily harm, and was leaving seven weeks earlier than planned. He said the first thing he would do is “go to McDonald's, go to my ...