I’m sitting in a now-empty journalism classroom, reading the article from Sarah Langdon in January’s Inside Time. My reply to ...

I read your recent article about hospital patients finding their food tasted better when eaten from blue plates (Yum! My ...

I was given a sentence of 2045 days [five years and seven months]. I served approximately two years and nine months, and I ...

I want to start with a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley, written in 1818. It is entitled ‘Ozymandias’ and describes a large stone ...

A few months ago, I was sent four back issues of the magazine Private Eye, but this prison’s post room would not allow me to ...

This is a very sensitive topic in prison and is still a taboo subject. I suffer with autism and struggle to make meaningful ...

I am sick to the back teeth of the myth of so-called progression, and it seems that if you are in a Scottish prison, you will ...

HM Inspectorate of Prisons has warned of continuing problems at G4S-run HMP Parc, following its highly-critical report in January 2025. Inspectors found some improvements, but not sufficient to ...

The Ministry of Justice expects that 520 people serving IPP (Imprisonment for Public Protection) sentences will still be in prison in 2030 without ever having been released, according to a Freedom ...

Iceland supermarkets have announced they are opening five new training academies in prisons around the United Kingdom. They already run what is said to be a very successful unit in HMP Oakwood, ...

Police are hunting 21-year-old man who managed to escape custody twice in a week whilst guarded during hospital visits. He was serving a sentence at HMP Feltham when prison staff took him to West ...

A jury at Hertfordshire Coroner’s Court has found that illegal drugs were responsible for the death of Simon Ludlow at HMP The Mount in November 2023.  The jury concluded that the prison’s failure ...