I have reached a certain age in my life, I can now piss off strangers, friends, family, and my wife, I can clear any room, ...

The ups, downs, challenges and triumphs of a prison leaver’s journey ‘You look more stressed out than I do, flower.’ Big Dennis smiled, sipping at his paper coffee cup, unruffled. Jason grimaced, ...

At PET, since our launch in 1989 we have funded more than 50,000 courses. That’s 50,000 lives changed, and 50,000 people ...

Bob Turney, who recently passed away, was an inspiration to me and others when it came to changing our lives. There is ...

Thanks to decades of banging up too many people for too long, prisons remain in the headlines. A lot of this news is ...

Every prison in England and Wales has an Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) – local volunteers who check on how the prison is run and publish their findings in an annual report Erlestoke Officer ...

From 1 October 2026, vapes will cost more in shops in England and Wales. This is because of a new tax called Vaping Products ...

October is Black History Month and this year’s theme is ‘Honouring Our Communities’. It’s all about celebrating people who shape communities.  HMPPS wants to give fair and equal treatment to all ...

From 1 October 2026, new rules will change how sentences are served. Here’s what you need to know about whether they affect ...

On 30 August 2026, the Prime Minister announced his intention to bring an end to Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) and Detention for Public Protection (DPP) sentences for people still ...

A bit of number-crunching shows that the prison population could be reduced safely without resorting to freeing people a third of the way through their sentences Over the past few years there has been ...

Last year 56,679 random drug tests were carried out across the prison estate. Yet, for the sixth consecutive year, the results themselves were withheld. We found a workaround – and what it reveals ...