Jackie Long , Social Affairs Editor and Presenter

There are calls for the prison service to face a corporate manslaughter prosecution following the self-inflicted death of a man in a troubled jail with a history of failing vulnerable prisoners.

A proposed law change is set to end an anomaly that protects other people’s children from paedophiles, but not the offender’s own. The current rules allow people convicted of raping a child to retain the right to be involved in key decisions about their children’s lives, with devastating consequences for many families, as we’ve previously…

We spoke to Seyed Mohammad Marandi, a professor at the University of Tehran, who was previously an adviser to Iran’s nuclear negotiations team.

We’re joined from Tel Aviv by Lieutenant Colonel Peter Lerner, who’s a spokesman for the Israel Defence Forces.

Ali Ansari is a professor of Iranian History and founding director of the Institute for Iranian Studies at St Andrews University.

The state of Britain’s prisons is under renewed scrutiny as report after report describes more and more jails as overcrowded, filthy places, rife with vermin and violence.

Pressure is growing on the Government to tackle a growing crisis in Wandsworth Prison. Filthy, overcrowded and rife with violence – and this week we revealed a sophisticated criminal network of drugs gangs working inside the South London jail. 

We spoke to Elisabeth Stern, from the Swiss Senior Women for Climate Protection – the group which pulled off the legal victory. 

The Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves was left with a multi-billion pound black hole in her spending plans when the government adopted some of the revenue-raising policies she was planning to bring in – should Labour win the next election. 

We spoke to Mark Fairhurst who chairs the Prison Officers Association and John Podmore, who’s served as a prison governor and as an inspector of prisons.

The rehabilitation of offenders is one of the stated aims of His Majesty’s prison service. 

Earlier we spoke to Ally Thomson, who is Director for Scotland of the campaign group Dignity in Dying and Dr. Gordon Macdonald, the CEO of Care Not Killing.

The Princess of Wales says it has been “an incredibly tough couple of months” as she revealed she is in the early stages of treatment for cancer. 

In the ongoing crisis in the criminal justice system – tonight – a young offenders institution in Kent is set to shut down and be reopened as an adult prison later this year. Cookham Wood has faced criticism in recent years for high levels of violence and appalling conditions but is that why it is…

We speak to Grace O’Malley-Kumar’s brother James, and her father, Dr Sanjoy Kumar, about what they see as the failures in the prosecution.