The Armed Forces charity SSAFA (Soldiers’, Sailors’ and Airmen’s Families Association) has been awarded funding to launch an ...

Senior Labour MP Dame Emily Thornberry has called for the closure of Pentonville prison, which is in her Islington South ...

Prisons will use new tool called the “AI violence predictor” to determine the threat posed by individuals in custody and take ...

Drones were spotted at prisons in England and Wales on 1,712 occasions in 2024/25 – more than four times per day – according ...

Prisoners now face being Tasered after Shabana Mahmood, the Justice Secretary, authorised use of the electric stun guns in ...

More than 400 people died in English and Welsh prisons in the past 12 months, an increase of 30 per cent on the previous year ...

Standards are falling across prisons in England and Wales – by the Ministry of Justice’s own admission. Annual Prison ...

Prisoners applying to the Parole Board for release are increasingly likely to be rejected – leading to claims that the decision-makers have become more ‘risk-averse’. In 2024/25, parole panels ...

My partner was wrongly convicted at trial of rape. The judge let him home with me and our three young children for four ...

The prestigious Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year (‘LALY’) awards were held on 4 July 2025. SL5 Legal had two finalists in the ...

A prison which banned its residents from receiving books from their families and friends has reversed its approach after ...

HMP Parkhurst, 2018. Located in Bottom Gardens is an inconspicuous building, brown brick, clad in corrugated steel and ...