A would-be drug smuggler was caught after prison security staff noticed he had arrived for a social visit wearing two pairs ...

Akhtar Uddin, a 35-year-old builder from London, was found dead at HMP Wandsworth on Christmas Day 2021. An inquest jury ...

Aaron Rowley died in hospital from brain damage on 25 February 2026. Three days earlier he had been found hanging from a fence at the house in which he was staying. A report by Adrian Usher, the ...

Did you know that chess has an Olympic Games? It’s true. It is called the Olympiad and it happens every two years. As you ...

Stuck inside this prison, With four weeks left to go, Where do I go from here? I don’t really know. I’m going to resettlement ...

The walls around you may be high, But they can’t stop the love nearby. No locked-up door, no steel, no key, Could ever take ...

We had a lovely summer but sometimes you can have too much of a good thing. The successive heatwaves of 2026 have caused ...

Our regular fiction column tells stories from the life of Harry, who always seems to find himself in some kind of trouble Ever since he’d received that letter from the Offender Management ...

A prison category review is an important part of sentence progression. It decides the security level you are held in and can affect your daily life, including time out of cell, access to work and ...

Each month, Inside Time lists the latest inspection reports for UK prisons. The latest report for your prison should be in the library High Down  “Encouraging progress, but drugs, poor living ...

Each month, Prisoners’ Education Trust brings you details of a subject you could study in your cell  World Teachers’ Day takes place on 5 October to celebrate teachers around the globe. What ...

During the tax clinics that I run at several prisons, I noticed that there is some confusion around ‘simple assessment’ and the closer sounding ‘self-assessment’. A lot of you will be familiar ...