Browsing: Prisons

Your leader on drugs in prisons (16 April) is right about the scale of the crisis, but wrong to suggest the chief inspector has only recently…

Police and the prisons ombudsman are investigating the death of a 16-year-old boy who was being held at a young offender institution in south-west London.The boy…

The role played by prison officers is so often overlooked and misunderstood, and your editorial (22 March) is right to highlight staff when addressing some of…

I agree with John Podmore’s comments on prisoners (Letters, 18 March), but they do not go far enough in addressing what happens after release. As a…

The government has reneged on a pledge to make all prison cells fire-safe or take them out of use by the end of next year, meaning…

The Prison Governors’ Association is right to warn about “nothing-to-lose” prisoners attacking notorious inmates such as Ian Huntley (Governors warn of increasing violence of ‘nothing-to-lose’ inmates…

There were “missed opportunities” that could have prevented the death of a woman with severe mental illness from “sustained inhalation of smoke” after a fire in…

Pat had been in trouble with the police before, when she was 16 and had been spat out of the care system with no qualifications, no…

A blanket rule to house transgender women in men’s prisons, even when they pose no risk to others, would be a “fundamental denial” of their identity,…

The most dangerous extremist prisoners in England and Wales will be held in “supermax-style units” similar to those used in US jails, David Lammy has told…