This month Inside Time launches a new regular column on Scottish prisons and justice, written by a serving prisoner
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The government’s late-June announcement that it intends to increase the starting point for domestic murder by 10 years has
I have a backlog of stories which I want to write, but life has overtaken them, so instead I
There are some projects in prisons that are so clearly positive that you wonder why other places haven’t already
The High Court in Dublin is hearing arguments against an extradition order issued in Northern Ireland against a man
An embarrassing slip of the tongue saw a top Government official tell MPs that she and her colleagues had
Having been in prison for nearly three years, I have come to notice the many reminders we get that
The Prisons and Probation Ombudsman, Adrian Usher, has published two reports which find that prisons failed men within them
An Inquest in Norwich has resulted in the Coroner issuing a Prevention of Future Deaths Notice after a man
A newly-published report from independent spending watchdog the National Audit Office (NAO) states that the prison and health services are facing substantial, increasing
Have you ever wished you’d told someone something, and now it’s too late? Perhaps it was a partner before
A new Saturday night prison drama on BBC1, called Waiting for the Out, focuses on Dan, who begins teaching
A prison director has described at an inquest an “extraordinary” culture of “staff not caring” at HMP Lowdham Grange
I often read letters in Inside Time from people talking about how wages are so bad, and complaining about
Last month the Scottish Government set out plans for another round of emergency early releases – the third since
A judge in Mold Crown Court told of the serious harm that drugs cause in prisons as he jailed
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Martin Jones, HM Chief Inspector of Probation, has told the Independent newspaper that at the present rate of progress
Getting a job with the Scottish prison system has become so easy that we all should be worried. They’ve
The impact of overcrowding on safety in prisons was highlighted in a hard-hitting national annual report from the Independent