Prisons archive

Record prison overcrowding ‘an embarrassment for UK’

• Samantha Dulieu
• 6 Sep
• News, Prisons

Concerns about rapid increase in young adults held in children’s estate,

• Jon Robins
• 13 Jul
• Prisons

Chief Prison Inspector laments prisoners left to “languish” in overcrowded cells

• Jack Sheard
• 11 Jul
• News, Prisons

‘Immoral and unfair’: IPP families take campaign to Parliament

• Samantha Dulieu
• 6 Jul
• Prisons

Black defendants experience longer remand times in England and Wales, new data shows

• Clementine Dela Cruz
• 12 Jun
• News, Prisons

New information request reveals ‘significant’ decrease in licence terminations for IPP prisoners  

• Karina Garcia-Leal
• 9 Jun
• News, Prisons

Prison services rules ‘actively preventing’ women and children from rehabilitation

• Clotilde Bereux
• 24 May
• News, Prisons

Women continue to be sent to prison for being mentally ill.

• Nicola Campbell
• 17 May
• News, Prisons

New data indicates over 1,000 prison rapes in England since 2010

• Joyce Claudia Choo
• 15 May
• News, Prisons

Sir John Major criticises ‘unwise’ tough on crime policies and makes case for prison reform

• Lauren Terrell
• 11 May
• News, Prisons

Inquest launched into death of baby at HMP Bronzefield

• Samantha Dulieu
• 3 May
• News, Prisons, Women

Trauma of IPP sentences revealed in new documentary

• Samantha Dulieu
• 18 Apr
• Prisons

Report reveals poor birth outcomes for pregnant women in English prisons

• Samantha Dulieu
• 27 Mar
• Prisons, Women

Why it makes no sense to increase prison places for women 

• Rona Epstein
• 23 Mar
• Prisons, Women

Aylesbury prison poses risk to prisoners

• Mustafa Mamujee
• 14 Mar
• News, Prisons