Chancellor Rachel Reeves pledged in her Autumn Budget to ‘begin to repair the justice system’ as she announced significant real-terms spending increases for the next two years. The Ministry of ...

Sir John Major has called the UK’s jails “a total and utter disgrace”, saying it is “completely unacceptable” that cells built in Victorian times to hold one prisoner are now holding two. The ...

There were red faces all round at the Scottish Prison Service and Scottish Police Force after a woman was mistakenly sent to a men’s prison for one night. Police said the mistake had arisen because ...

When the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) visits people in prison we are often asked about the role of our Commissioners and their backgrounds. Commissioners play a very important part in ...

Inside Justice is a small organisation with a mighty purpose. We overturn wrongful convictions and campaign for systemic change because no-one should face conviction for a crime they didn’t ...

Police have opened an inquiry into social media messages exchanged between staff at Parc prison in south Wales, relating to ...

On a beautiful Autumn evening supporters of Children Heard and Seen (CHAS), a charity which supports families with a parent in prison, gathered on the Terrace of the Houses of Parliament to celebrate ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...