Prisons archive

Meet the prisoners coaching themselves out of the prisons crisis

• Hardeep Matharu
• 31 Jan
• Prisons

HMP Bedford: ‘overcrowded, dirty and vermin infested’

• Natalia Brownlie
• 23 Jan
• Prisons

Prisons minister looks to scrap sentences of less than six months

• Jon Robins
• 14 Jan
• Prisons

HMP Birmingham: inmates ‘walking around like zombies’ high on Spice’

• Ranette Prime
• 7 Dec
• Prisons

Learning from Scotland’s alternative to youth criminal justice

• Alex Temple
• 7 Dec
• News, Prisons

Scrapping sentences of less than 12 months for women would ‘save lives and cut crime’

• Jon Robins
• 1 Nov
• Prisons

More than 25 attacks on prison staff recorded every day

• Jon Robins
• 26 Oct
• Prisons

‘Its time for a public inquiry,’ ex prison inspector tells MPs

• Hardeep Matharu
• 16 Oct
• Prisons

The failure of UK prisons and the role of civil society

• Olivia Beer
• 2 Oct
• Prisons

What about me? Listening to the stories of children with a mother in prison

• Sarah Beresford
• 9 Jul
• Prisons

‘Damning’ findings of prison watchdogs ‘routinely ignored’

• Jon Robins
• 5 Jul
• Prisons

No accountability: who is responsible for rising number of prison deaths

• Kate Maynard and Helen Stone
• 30 May
• News, Prisons

‘Each death represents a failure of the state’: the unrecognised scandal of prison suicides

• Hardeep Matharu
• 29 May
• News, Prisons

‘Appalling and tragic’ suicides at HMP Nottingham linked to ‘dangerous’ conditions

• Jon Robins
• 17 May
• News, Prisons

The health and safety watchdog inspects dangerous prisons as staff assaults rocket

• Hardeep Matharu
• 15 May
• News, Prisons