Emergency measures have been introduced by the Justice Secretary in order to prevent the prisons system from reaching full capacity by November. Shabana Mahmood introduced plans on Wednesday to ...

Editorial: As The Independent reports on a dramatic increase in drug-related prison deaths in the last decade, urgent action ...

Recruitment from West Africa has thrown into focus the crisis reshaping Britain’s prisons.

The justice department has announced plans for new 'supermax' prisons for the UK's most violent offenders. Inspired by prisons in the United States, the new unit's will house violent inmates and ...

The drugs crisis in English and Welsh prisons has reached “endemic” levels, “fostering a dangerous culture of acceptance that must be broken”, said the House of Commons Justice Committee. The prison ...