A clean slate for 2023: Sharmain Harris gets pardon after years of community work
New Year’s Day offers the chance for a clean slate in 2023. At 6 p.m. on Dec. 20 [...]
Prison committees flag serious concerns over inmate mental health
Reports describe severe and enduring mental health issues for many inmates, some [...]
PETER HITCHENS: I still believe crime must be punished. But a week inside showed me squalor achieves nothing
I spent last week in prison. I know prison is where quite a lot of my Left-wing [...]
Prisoner literacy: ‘When you pick up a book you’re not thinking of being locked in the cell’
Literacy ambassadors say they tell prisoners: ‘It’s not like learning when we we [...]
‘No case to answer’: the Londoner arrested for murder on the injustice that shaped his life
Kenny Imafidon was arrested under the controversial ‘joint enterprise’ law. Afte [...]
Seven out of ten prisoners leave school by age of 14, taskforce told
First meeting of Prison Education Task Force held in Mountjoy Prison attended by [...]
Over 800 prisoners left waiting for addiction services in Irish prisons
Sinn Féin’s spokesman for mental health Mark Ward warned that people who do not [...]
What we’ve learned from teaching in prison
Opinion: prison education has a long tradition in Ireland north and south and is [...]
Social Enterprise leading the charge in tackling prisoner education secures £150,000 of investment
The Bank of America-backed Growth Impact Fund, developed by Big Issue Invest and [...]
HMP Northumberland: Prison farm shop to sell inmates’ produce
A charity is setting up a farm shop at a prison to sell produce grown on site to [...]