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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

A criminal gang whose crimes included torching of prison officers’ cars at HMP Addiewell as well as a number of serious ...

HMP Woodhill has banned visitors from wearing items from popular fashion brand Hoodrich. HMP Wormwood Scrubs and HMP Lewes ...