UK prisoners are stuck in solitary confinement in extreme heat as UK temperatures reach 37°C
While parts of the UK basked in 37°C sun on 31 July, prisoners were stuck in inhumane, overheated conditions without ...
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New prisons and longer sentences. It’s time to talk about prison reform.
The Counter-Terrorism and Sentencing bill 2019-21 is currently going through the House of Commons. If passed, it could result in ...
Activist Sarah Hegazi took a stand for LGBTQI+ rights and paid the ultimate price. We must honour that.
On 14 June, communist, feminist, and LGBTQI+ activist Sarah Hegazi died in Canada after taking her own life. She was ...
A controversially imprisoned UK national in the US hits headlines again during coronavirus pandemic
An 81-year-old British national has been imprisoned in the US for over 30 years. With the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic ...
As deaths occur and coronavirus cases start to rise in British prisons, campaigners express their concerns
As British prisons experienced their first deaths from coronavirus (Covid-19), justice campaigners have warned this might just be the beginning. ...
British prisons have now seen their first coronavirus death
The inmate at HMP Littlehey, a category C male sex offenders’ jail in Cambridgeshire, reportedly had underlying health issues.
More prisoners reported dead after police repression of revolts in quarantined Italian jails
The riots broke out after corrections authorities suspended or limited family visits for two weeks to prevent the spread of ...
Prison Service accused of ‘blatant disregard for life’ after failing to prevent racist attacks
Campaigners are demanding that the Prison Service takes steps to prevent further violent attacks on prisoner Kevan Thakrar. On 23 ...
The DWP agreed a man needed money until his benefits were sorted and then offered him 8p
A man who needed money until his benefits were sorted was offered a loan of 8p by the Department of ...
Prison staff at HMP Winchester using force ’60 times a month’ to tackle violence
HMP Winchester has been in special measures for the last year.
Warning over increasing violence at Pentonville Prison
Gangs, drugs, debts and volatile young prisoners are fuelling the situation, according to inspectors.
Anti-prison campaigners successfully stopped work on a new ‘mega-prison’
Anti-prison campaigners are fighting the creation of a new ‘mega-prison’ in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire. And yesterday they stepped up their campaign ...
Legal reforms to ‘remove stigma’ from ex-prisoners seeking work
It is hoped the reforms will ‘break barriers’ to employment faced by ex-offenders who want to turn their lives around.
‘Shameful’ number of people sent to prison in England and Wales, report says
More people are being sent to prison in England and Wales every year than anywhere else in western Europe, figures ...
Michael Gove ‘deeply regrets’ taking cocaine. Here are five things he doesn’t regret.
It came out on 7 June that Tory leadership hopeful Michael Gove took cocaine over 20 years ago. While cocaine ...
Sitting on a pavement just landed a homeless person 20 weeks in jail
Sitting on the pavement in Somerset "without reasonable excuse" landed a homeless man with a 20-week jail sentence. According to County ...
Shocking institutional racism highlighted by new inquest into Aboriginal death in Australia
This week, an inquest into the death of an Aboriginal man in custody is underway at Sydney's Downing Centre in ...
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