A report on troubled HMP Lowdham Grange by Chief Inspector of Prisons Charlie Taylor, published last week, says that there ...

If you’ve recently been recalled to prison, you may have heard about something called “Risk Assessed Recall Review” (referred to as RARR or sometimes Executive Release). Alternatively, you may ...

At a time when many charities are sadly no longer in existence due to both the reduction of grant funding and the increase in ...

A mother of six who was caught passing a package containing Spice and cannabis to a man in HMP Berwyn has been spared prison.

Q I have been transferred from HMP Lowdham Grange four days after I received my parole date to HMP Manchester. In 2019 I received nine years for a Section 18 and robbery. My first parole date was ...

Just as you thought the long football season had ended, world governing body FIFA relaunched its revamped competition which ...

I would like to know why magazines are not treated as books here in this prison. My family have, until recently, sent in ...

Death had once held Rasul’s right hand and had spoken to him, saying:  ‘Rasul, I am holding you, you can let go now.’ And Death’s hand had been warm, and soft, like Rasul’s grandfather’s. But ...

Stuart Reid is very big on details, and this is an incredibly detailed book. You follow him closely from arrest and through his sentence, and hear about every trial and tribulation as he ...

Life in Scottish prisons in the 1960s and 70s was drastically different from today. Buildings were Victorian, conditions were austere, and violence was commonplace. In 1973, the prisons department ...

On a recent hot Monday afternoon, I visited a Shared Reading group based in one of our PIPE (psychologically-informed planned environment) settings that run up and down the country. Day-to-day, I ...

All books can (metaphorically!) transport you: to different places, different times and into different peoples’ minds. It’s a big part of what makes reading so interesting and, hopefully, fun.