One of the pleasures of working for Inside Time is seeing articles and comments sent in by readers. Lack of space prevents us ...

I really don’t want to sound like just another bitter criminal who thinks we have it really bad in prison, as that is not ...

Keeping people safe in our prisons is always a top priority for HMPPS Between 18-22 November, HMPPS will be running our National Safety Week. Prisons across England and Wales have been invited to ...

I’m a marshal on the parkrun, and it is a really fun role. I love clapping and cheering the runners on, even the joggers and walkers as they go round the field. We do our best to make sure no-one ...

We regularly advise people to use the Prison Service complaints system to raise concerns about their treatment. But how you write a complaint can make a difference to how effective it is and how ...

We asked readers at HMP Woodhill to send us a review of the prison – the good, the bad and the ugly. Here’s the best one we received.  I am almost 20 years into my IPP (never been released), ...

A mother-of-six who was in the prison for the first time took her own life after being denied phone calls with loved ones and left without clean underwear for 10 days. Kay Melhuish, 36, died ...

The crisis in Britain’s prisons featured in the ‘Battle of Ideas’ debates in Church House, Westminster. The two-day conference was presented by the Academy of Ideas, an organisation committed to ...

Workshops in prison are mostly simple time-fillers, teaching menial skills that are as useful as a chocolate teapot in the real world. Prison education is largely the same. Prisons typically teach ...

The rate of self-harm in prisons has reached its highest since records began in 2004, according to figures released by the Ministry of Justice. There were 76,365 incidents of self-harm in the 12 ...

On the 19 May, 2024, I suffered a life-changing injury after I had a full-blown PTSD attack and poured scalding water from the kettle down my left leg and hand to stop the horrific images playing ...

One-third of prisoners serving Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentences are in the wrong prisons, the Government has admitted. Around 840 of the 2,800 people still in custody on the ...