Prison

James Timpson, CEO of the Timpson’s Group tells Krishnan Guru-Murthy the secrets behind his unconventional leadership style and why fostering a culture of kindness, giving ex-prisoners a second chance and cultivating a happy workforce are key to his business’s ethos, in In this episode of Ways to Change the World.

The escape from Wandsworth prison sparked a four-day manhunt involving more than 150 police officers.

Children armed themselves with homemade weapons for protection at a young offenders institution in Kent where violence was rife – a damning report has revealed. 

Wes Streeting MP joins Krishnan Guru-Murthy to talk about his journey from a Stepney council estate to the Labour frontbench in Westminster, his optimism that poverty is a trap we can escape and his vision for an NHS ‘fit for the future’ on the eve of the 2024 UK general election, on this week’s Ways to Change the World podcast.

The Chief Inspector of Prisons has demanded that the Government take urgent action to tackle conditions at Exeter prison. Peter Clarke has given the Justice Secretary 28 days to respond with a plan to tackle rising levels of violence and self harm at the Category B jail, which has seen 5 self-inflicted deaths in the…

Inmates at Nottingham Prison may have taken their own lives because they could no longer face conditions there, according to the chief prisons inspector. Peter Clarke said that for too long prisoners there had been held in a dangerous and disrespectful environment. His report found there had been eight self-inflicted deaths at the jail since…

Prisons Minister Rory Stewart discusses the report on Nottingham Prison.

Despite being suspected of attacking more than 100 women, John Worboys was granted parole after spending a decade in jail.  Two of the women he attacked successfully challenged that decision and he remains behind bars. Now the government has set out plans to reform the parole system.

The President of the Prison Governors Association has said a “perverse” government overhaul is to blame for the crisis in jails across England and Wales. In an open letter she said the Prison Service is trying to cope with a “toxic mix” of pressures. The government has said it has taken action to deal with…

In America, the state of Arkansas has carried out the country’s first double execution since the year 2000. Lethal injections were administered to two death row inmates, each separately convicted of rape and murder offences.

A series of riots in jails across Brazil in recent months have left dozens of prisoners dead. The incidents, in a country with the third largest prison population in the world, have raised serious questions about conditions and staffing in Brazil’s jails.

Joining us is Kate Paradine, Chief Executive of Women in Prison, who provide support for women who are, or have been, in prison.

As the crisis in our jails deepens – a mother breaks her silence for the first time to talk about how prison failed to prevent her mentally ill daughter from taking her own life.

An inquest has heard how a 25 year old man electrocuted himself in his prison cell.

A former prisons boss has called on the Justice Secretary to apologise for the prison system being brought to the brink of collapse.