Britain’s prisons are at breaking point
Labour must address the overcrowding crisis, however unpalatable the solutions.
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PMQs review: Sunak and Starmer need to grow up
Government scrutiny is being lost in the attempt to score rhetorical points.
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Esther McVey’s war on rainbow lanyards and homeless prisoners
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Chris Atkins: “If we solved reoffending, we’d prevent 80 per cent of all crimes”
The author, film-maker and former Wandsworth inmate on why we should all care about our broken prison system.
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Pia Sinha: how criminal gangs are taking over prisons
The ex-prison governor and justice reformer on a crumbling British penal system.
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The UK is starting to accept that prison doesn’t work
As the Justice Secretary has recognised, short sentences are not effective in reducing reoffending.
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Nothing fails as hard as the British justice system
Everybody knows how to fix Britain’s prisons – so why hasn’t that happened yet?
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Prisons are at breaking point
Political parties compete over punishing offenders – but the prison population has already doubled since 1993.
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Inside the minds of serial killers – with the woman who treats them
The forensic psychologist Dr Rebecca Myers on working with the most notorious figures in the criminal justice system.
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Ahdaf Soueif’s Diary: My nephew is on hunger strike in an Egyptian prison. Can the British government save him?
Since 2006, every regime that has come to power in Egypt has tried to silence Alaa Abd el-Fattah – but…
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Cooking, cushion covers and coffee roasting: A different sort of prison education
Is the government doing enough to support prisoner education initiatives?
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Gender-critical feminism is not as popular as its supporters may want you to believe
A new report from one of the world’s largest fact-checkers debunks the notion that the campaign #KeepPrisonsSingleSex has widespread appeal.
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Female prisoners shouldn’t be used as a shield for trans women from male violence
The House of Lords must vote to keep prisons single-sex.
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The death of a baby born in a prison cell exposes England’s warped justice system
A pregnant inmate of HMP Bronzefield was “failed”, a report finds. For women in prisons, it is a grimly familiar…
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