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Female self-harm rates in prison hits record high over pandemic

The rate of self-harm per thousand women in prison has hit the highest it has been on record. In the

Drawing my way out of prison: an artist’s postcard diary of life inside

Erika Flowers arrived at HMP Holloway in 2014.  As the Serco van approached the prison gates she began her six-year

IPP prisoner population plateaus

IPP prisoner population at near-standstill for first time in five years

The number of those serving controversial indeterminate sentences for public protection has plateaued due to a sharp rise in recalls

Assaults on prison staff at second highest in a decade

Assaults on prison staff in England and Wales are at their second-highest in the last ten years, according to the

Social justice top priority for Croydon North’s Lib Dem General Election candidate

Claire Bonham (left) with Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson (right)

On the pulse: Should prisoners be entitled to conjugal visits

Prisoners’ rights have been the centre of controversy for many years, with last month’s announcement they were to be allowed

HMP Wandsworth criticised for ‘desperate’ state of prisoners as suicides behind bars rise dramatically

Three prisoners committed suicide in HMP Wandsworth last year as fears grow about the upward trend of self-harm in prisons

MoJ apologises for ‘misleading’ parliament over prison crowding – Wandsworth HMP already branded ‘in crisis’

A Minister of Justice spokesman apologised today for ‘unacceptable’ misleading figures under-representing the extent of overcrowding in prisons, months after

Overcrowding crisis: Wandsworth prison ‘caging men in squalor’ in cells meant for one, charity reveals

Wandsworth prisoners are being forced to share single cells as the scale of the overcrowding crisis was revealed today by

Prison union joins chorus of condemnation over Brixton HMP’s ‘unsafe, ineffective and inhuman’ conditions

A prison union has denounced Brixton prison conditions, criticising the ‘powder keg’ caused by over-crowding, under-staffing, and low officer morale.

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