prison Articles

The difficulties that beleaguered prisons face are well documented in numerous official inquiries alongside a plethora of books by famous, and infamous, former prisoners. In light of this, is there anything new or interesting to be said? Fortunately for Denis...

Noel 'Razor' Smith has a total of 58 criminal convictions and is thought to have committed over 200 armed robberies. He was first imprisoned at age 16 and spent almost all of the next 34 years in various prisons, never succeeding in 'going straight' on his brief...

The justice secretary says he is outraged that terrorists and child sex abusers are released halfway through their sentences regardless of whether they have changed their attitudes or behaviour. We should all be outraged with him. It is outrageous too, that, until...

On his appointment as justice secretary, aware of the need to make cuts, Chris Grayling made clear that he saw a stark choice between reducing the number of people in prison and reducing the costs of each prison place. He, of course, chose the latter - an approach...