Prisoners are not getting adequate healthcare during their sentences and the issue is having an impact on reoffending rates, according to the Social Market Foundation.
Tension between policy and funding decisions has underpinned a long-running prison capacity crisis that saw the criminal justice system come within three days of collapse, according to a high-level...
The next government will have just days to avert a crisis in the prison service, with English and Welsh jails on the brink of running out of places, a leading think-tank has warned.
The prison system in England and Wales is “enduring a crisis of safety and decency”, as violence increases and self-harm has soared to record highs, a scathing justice committee report has found.
Young people are not being helped to reintegrate into society after being released from young offender institutions, a report by HM Inspectorate of Prisons and HM Inspectorate of Probation has found.
Record highs in prison assault and self harm levels in England and Wales have sparked calls for new prime minister Boris Johnson to invest in prison safety.
The government does not know the extent of the mental health problem in prisons nor how much it will cost to address, the National Audit Office has found.
Justice secretary Liz Truss has announced an immediate pay hike of up to £5,000 for prison officers at 31 jails across London and the South East in order to tackle a crisis that has seen an...
Prison reform campaigners are calling for a greater investment in prison staff after figures showed prisoner suicides have reached the highest level since recording began in 1978.
David Cameron is set to announce plans to counter the “scandalous failure” of Britain’s prisons, including a pilot scheme that will delegate more control to prison governors.
