This month the column comes from AL Kennedy, award-winning writer, who shares some favourite books with Inside Time readers.

Jacob Dunne on how talking to the parents of his victim turned his life around At the age of 19, Jacob Dunne was sentenced to prison for manslaughter. He had punched a man in what was described as ...

Before there were prisons in this country, we had what were known as ‘Houses of Correction’.  These were established in the late 16th century as places for the punishment and reform, through hard ...

Small Things Like These Prison Reading Groups (PRG) runs more than 110 groups in over 80 prisons nationwide. Groups choose ...

Two men wrongly convicted in separate trials in the 1970s following allegations made by a corrupt police officer have had ...

HM Chief Inspector of Prisons Charlie Taylor has issued an Urgent Notification for Pentonville. It follows, he says, a visit ...

Video footage has captured a drone flying a package into Wandsworth prison, in south London. BBC2’s Newsnight showed the film ...

Karl Marx – philosopher, founder of Communism, and economist – was the first to write that history repeats itself, first as ...

What is crime? We create rules to guide our behaviour so we can live peacefully around other people. But sometimes our lives ...

In this prison we get two hours of SOWA. This stands for Structured On/Off Wing Activities. One hour is for wing association ...

I would like to thank Inside Time for publishing, in your May issue, my Mailbag titled ‘Stop stealing our pensions’ and the Newsround headlined ‘OAPs in prison lose £41 million’. An Act of ...

George Joseph Smith (pictured) was hanged in 1915 for the murder of Bessie Mundy, one of three wives who died mysteriously in ...