After a man remanded in HMP Durham took his own life the day he arrived, the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman has criticised failures by officers to identify the risk. Ahmed Alshbli arrived at HMP ...

A prisoner climbed onto the roof of an outbuilding at HMP Berwyn and stayed there for nine hours, hurling pieces of the roof ...

Singer, author and TV personality Mel B has told National Prison Radio that anyone suffering from domestic abuse should reach ...

Rocky free! Rapper dodges  knockout verdict A$AP Rocky walked out of a Los Angeles courtroom a free man last month after ...

The report this month comes from Wandsworth, where one of the groups chose Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca. The novel was first ...

The Perrie Lectures, named after Bill Perrie who was a prominent prison governor well aware of the need to reflect the concept of humanity in dealings with his staff and those in his care, are ...

I got five years for tax fraud in 2016 and was locked up in HMP Wandsworth. I’d never been to prison before, and completely ...

A column to help you find intriguing books The sheer volume of fiction (without even starting on historical accounts, ...

Every prison in England and Wales has an Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) – local volunteers who check on how the prison is run and publish their findings in an annual report Wormwood ...

At this prison, rats run everywhere that we as prisoners eat, sleep and work. They are starting to get inside the wings and ...

Sometimes my work takes me to meetings where I struggle to find anything interesting to write. That certainly does not apply ...

The Association of Prisoners Maintaining Innocence (APMI) gives support to prisoners, ex-prisoners, and those on probation who maintain innocence. We’re limited to giving non-financial and ...