31st July 2007
Prisons are being stretched to breaking point by the huge increase in "ferocious and unjust" indeterminate jail sentences, penal reformers have warned.
19th July 2007
Prisons and police authorities will be liable for prosecution over deaths of people held in custody after a final defeat of the Government over the scope of new corporate manslaughter laws.
11th July 2007
The policy of putting high-risk prisoners, including sex offenders and those coming to the end of life sentences, in open jails before their release is questioned today by the chief inspector of prisons.
11th July 2007
The Koestler awards, a 'Turner prize for prisoners', are finally making it into the mainstream. Iain Aitch reports
11th July 2007
Being sensitive to a person's individual needs was never a concern under communism. Nearly two decades later, it's still not a priority - at least, not in the criminal justice system.
10th July 2007
The findings of a Prison Reform Trust research project, No One Knows, must trigger urgent action, argues Erwin James
9th July 2007
The French president Nicolas Sarkozy will not give a traditional Bastille Day pardon to thousands of prisoners in the country's overcrowded jails, raising fears that disappointed inmates could riot.
8th July 2007
The French President, Nicolas Sarkozy has ruled out a traditional mass pardon of prisoners to coincide with the French national holiday, Bastille Day.
7th July 2007
Bragg and ex-Clash member offer inmates guitars and a chance to change their lives
4th July 2007
In commuting I. Lewis Libby Jr.'s 30-month prison sentence on Monday, President Bush drew on the same array of arguments about the federal sentencing system often made by defense lawyers - and routinely and strenuously opposed by his own Justice Department.
Respect for rights in the penal system with prison as a last resort.