It's no secret that the re-offending rate in this country remains far too high and that the public find it alarming. What's less publicised is what victims think about all this. Time and again victims tell me that, yes they want those who committed a crime to be punished, but also they want them to be rehabilitated.

Prison reform campaigners have called for urgent action at Britain's news private jail, which has been put into "lock-down" in response to the violent...

Prisoners are to be banned from watching violent and sexually explicit films as part of a clampdown on perks behind bars. Certificate 18-rated movi...

Prison is our least visible, most neglected, public service. Perhaps no surprise then, that when people in communities turn their attention to the state of our prisons and the state of people in them, many feel impelled to get involved in changing a flawed justice system.

It is home to Buckingham Palace, the Houses of Parliament and a recently sold £250m property - but Westminster has more violent crime than the UK's s...

A man jailed over the death of Baby P is back in prison after breaching his bail conditions. Jason Owen was originally handed a six-year sentence f...

Two severely disabled prisoners were found crammed into a Victorian cell designed for nearly 24 hours a day during an inspection of an "overcrowded" a...

A murder suspect who escaped from a prison van more than a year ago was flown back to the UK on Saturday after being arrested in Northern Cyprus. J...

The number of prisoner escapes has increased as staffing numbers are cut, MPs have warned. Assaults on staff, suicides and self harm are also up, s...

Private prisons are more efficient and better at managing re-offending than public prisons, and jails should be put on the open market by the governme...

Two prisoners are being held in police custody after Subhan Anwar, who was jailed for torturing and murdering his partner's two-year-old daughter, was...

A severely disabled prisoner who requires round-the-clock treatment does not have to go back to jail, the Court of Appeal has ruled. Daniel Roque H...

The Ministry of Justice is suspending one of the suppliers of meat to prisons after it discovered that Halal pies and pasties sourced from a properly ...

Women who have been trafficked into the country to work as prostitutes, drug mules or domestic servants can end up in UK prisons without any protectio...