There’s a lot of talk about prisons being full and run down. The system is broken. The probation service can’t cope with ...

In the first case of its kind, a man in Scotland was recently sentenced to eight years’ imprisonment for culpable homicide after his wife took her own life. It is a tragic case, and my heart goes ...

I know how fortunate I am to have a job writing for Inside Time. I meet some remarkable people, and learn so much by ...

It is 2026, and several years have passed since Covid regulations were lifted from prisons. Except at one. Wormwood Scrubs ...

There’s a story about Roger Bannister running a mile in under four minutes back in 1954. Before that, people in white coats ...

I am lucky in the sense that I’ve been out on my IPP sentence. While I was in the community in 2023/24, I passed a humanities ...

Why are all prisons so different in what you can or cannot have? We save up our minuscule wages, especially those who aren’t ...

As the domestic football season draws to a dramatic close on both sides of the border, the month of May is where the final ...

When HM Inspectorate of Prisons (HMIP) visited Wormwood Scrubs and Pentonville in 2025, it issued scathing verdicts.

Scottish prisoners released 614 prisoners early in a drive to reduce overcrowding – only for jails to end up more full than ...

DPP is a slow, torturous death. Three hundred deceased and no bodies left. Where are they then? Some of them were boys, now ...

Promoting reading and reading groups in prisons This month the focus is on some classic books – ones that have stood the test ...