Eight prisoners at HMP Addiewell were rushed to hospital in the space of 24 hours after apparently taking ‘pink cocaine’. The ...

Restricted regimes and self-harm at Eastwood Park women’s prison are a matter of “concern”, the jail’s Independent Monitoring ...

A prisoner who carried out a series of attacks on prison officers with homemade plastic weapons has been locked up ...

Drug misuse is a growing crisis in our prisons. The latest data from the Ministry of Justice shows that around half of all people in prison have a drug misuse habit. Sadly, 2024 saw an alarming ...

The Scottish Government is considering a proposal to let prisoners remain on GP lists whilst serving their jail time. The ...

Inside Time lists the latest inspection reports for UK prisons. Reports for your prison – including an easy read version – should be available in the prison library or ...

Every year the Oxford English Dictionary adds words to its publication that it says reflect changes in our language. In ...

The UK’s population is ageing. In 2022, there were around 12.7 million people aged 65 or over. It is projected that this could rise to 22.1 million by 2072 – that’s over a quarter of the ...

Keeping prisoners in police cells under the emergency Operation Safeguard scheme costs four times more than keeping them in ...

Over the past few weeks here at HMP Whatton, we have had a severe outbreak of vomiting and diarrhoea. It was so severe that ...

What shocks me is the self-harm rate in this prison. It is disgusting. Some women cut their arms for attention, but the ...

Messages exchanged among staff at troubled Parc prison, and leaked to the media, show prison officers boasting about using ...