Stuck inside this prison, With four weeks left to go, Where do I go from here? I don’t really know. I’m going to resettlement ...

The walls around you may be high, But they can’t stop the love nearby. No locked-up door, no steel, no key, Could ever take ...

The Sentencing Act 2026 introduced new additional licence conditions for probation to consider adding to licences. Additional licence conditions are conditions that can be added to your licence in ...

One of the biggest barriers facing people leaving prison is not a lack of talent or motivation. More often, it is perception.

Most prisoners will be affected by new release arrangements which start this month The Government’s latest automatic release scheme is the most significant change to prison release arrangements ...

We had a lovely summer but sometimes you can have too much of a good thing. The successive heatwaves of 2026 have caused ...

BAFTA-winning screenwriter Jimmy McGovern has said that going into young offender institutions (YOIs) to research his new TV ...

The Conservative party has pledged to build 50,000 new prison places if it wins the next election and says the bulk of the ...

Glasgow’s historic HMP Barlinnie may remain in operation after the opening of the new HMP Glasgow, which is being built to ...

Drink and Drugs News (DDN) is the monthly magazine for those working with drug and alcohol clients, including in prisons. In ...

During the tax clinics that I run at several prisons, I noticed that there is some confusion around ‘simple assessment’ and the closer sounding ‘self-assessment’. A lot of you will be familiar ...

A prison category review is an important part of sentence progression. It decides the security level you are held in and can affect your daily life, including time out of cell, access to work and ...