Prisons archive

Scrap prison sentences of under a year, say MPs

• Jon Robins
• 3 Apr
• Prisons

Part-privatisation of probation ‘irredeemably flawed’, says chief inspector

• Jon Robins
• 28 Mar
• Prisons

‘I’m afraid of being stuck here and I’m afraid of getting out’

• Jon Robins
• 26 Mar
• Prisons

Grayling’s rehabilitation revolution ‘set up to fail’

• Jon Robins
• 1 Mar
• Prisons

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