All news on the topic: Prisons and probation

Johnpaul Digweed, 36, was serving a 25-year prison sentence for supplying vast amounts of drugs when he was found dead in his cell at HMP Garth in April 2024

Probation staff have been told not to use the phrase chemical castration in conversations with paedophiles and sex offenders

James Timpson says he will fight ‘normalised’ sexual harassment, bullying and racism within prison service

Prisons will need more money to combat the rapid rise in drones delivering drugs, the head of an influential Commons committee has said, as figures showed the number of aerial incursions predicted to have tripled in two years.

Woman jailed for M25 protest not allowed to continue home detention because electronic tags are too big

New laws to be introduced in England and Wales in attempt to reduce violence against women and girls

‘Horrendous’ MoJ figures show some prisoners given indeterminate sentences in England and Wales before 2008 still behind bars

Steven Wilson was attacked after risk assessment failed to stop convicted murderer working in kitchen with access to knives

Serco says it is working to fit electronic devices, which were a condition of early release of 1,700 last week

The Justice Ministry is reportedly considering sending criminals from England and Wales to a Baltic state.

Former chief inspector of prisons Nick Hardwick says money would be better spent preventing crime