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Prisons Minister Robert Buckland is a Boris Johnson backer.
It should be open to all, but for young people leaving care the chance of higher education, of all the opportunities which that entails, is virtually out of reach.
Two journalists who were jailed after reporting on Myanmar’s treatment of Rohingya Muslims have been released. Kyaw Soe Oo and Wa Lone, who work for the Reuters news agency, spent more than 500 days in prison.
A women’s jail is running a unique project to build and run pop-up shops within the confine, aimed at preparing prisoners mentally to cope with normal life on release, and to gain the right skills to get employment.
The ousted Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir has been transferred to a prison in the capital Khartoum according to officials.
Last week the death in the segregation unit of Peterborough prison of a 47-year-old mother Annabella Landsberg, from Zimbabwe, was roundly condemned by an inquest jury. The prison ombudsman described the events as ‘shocking’. Her sister Sandra sat through the entire three-week hearing. She was lucky. She had legal aid. It stretched to paying for…
Prisons Minister Rory Stewart discusses Brexit.
She was a diabetic prisoner who died after being restrained and left on her cell floor for 21 hours. Staff at Peterborough prison thought Annabelle Landsberg was “play acting” when she stayed on the floor in September 2017. Now an inquest jury has found that a series of failings by prison and healthcare staff contributed to her death.
Prisons Minister Rory Stewart discusses Brexit.
According to a report being released tomorrow, the number of children with a parent in prison has been hugely under-estimated.
An acclaimed photographer who spent more than a hundred days in prison in Bangladesh claims he was tortured by security forces.
A coroner has written to the Justice Secretary urging action to prevent future deaths at the country’s largest privately run women’s only prison, Bronzefield.
A cross-party group of MPs and lawyers have called on the Saudi government to allow them to visit the eight female activists, after reports emerged that they had been tortured and sexually assaulted while in detention.
Rat infestations, overcrowding and drugs. Those problems are just some of the things prison inspectors found during an impromptu visit to Bedford jail. The Prison Service had spent the last two years trying to improve conditions at Bedford. But the inspectors’ latest report paints a grim picture of a jail rife with violence and self-harm.
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has started a hunger strike in protest at not receiving medical attention she says she needs in her Tehran jail. Her husband also says that the Iranians have suggested that they could release her if she agreed to spy for them.