In pictures: New exhibition showcasing sport in prisons set to mark Prisons Week
Landing curling, gymnastics and an official Belfast Marathon are among the sport [...]
Prison lessons from the Netherlands
Your report (UK could rent space in foreign jails to ease shortage of cells, 3 O [...]
Cork court-referral progamme sees young cocaine users avoid criminal conviction
A Cork health intervention programme has seen 189 young cocaine users avoiding a [...]
New Prison Education Service to cut crime
Overhaul of learning behind bars to include specialist teaching staff, apprentic [...]
From prison and homelessness to a new life and prospects for Lloyd
At school he was classed as a troublemaker, at home he was seen as a disruptive [...]
Sharp increase in number of very short prison terms being imposed by judges
Number of sentences being handed down of three months or less more than doubles [...]
61% of former prisoners had reoffended within three years – CSO
Three in every five people released from prison reoffended within three years ac [...]
FACE-TO-FACE I sat with prisoners after writing about the crimes that put them behind bars – their first words to me were fascinating
THERE are locked doors and security cameras between me and the outside world. On [...]
Despite Scotland’s presumption against short prison sentences, about 75% of inmates were jailed for six months or less in 2020-21 – Karyn McCluskey
Some see prison as an easier option than community sentences, but others just ne [...]
Locked up and left behind: investigating the prison education gap
Prison walls separate more than people, as where you stand in relation to those [...]