Scotland’s Chief Inspector of Prisons, Sara Snell, has warned that young people in custody at HMP/YOI Polmont spend too long ...
When we visit you, or you correspond with us through our free helpline – we are often asked questions about sentencing miscalculations. This can include enquiries around the correction of ...
Scotland’s Justice Secretary has declared that ‘real progress’ has been made since the suicides of two young people at HMP & ...
Facing the Parole Board can be one of the most daunting, emotionally challenging, and uncertain stages of a person’s sentence. At BD Solicitors, we recognise how much is at stake—your future, your ...
The Women’s Justice Board, established by the incoming Labour Government in 2024 to reduce the number of women in prison, has published its first report – calling for pregnant women to be spared ...
Low Newton women’s prison has received a rare rating of “good” from the education inspectorate Ofsted for the quality of its ...
The President of the Prison Governors Association (PGA) has said that some people serving lengthy sentences or whole-life ...
The campaign group Injustice of IPP, which wants to see people serving IPP (Imprisonment for Public Protection) sentences ...
A 78-year-old remand prisoner died after starving himself for six days at HMP Hewell, an inquest heard. Surendra Patel was arrested after a woman, also in her 70s, was found dead in his home. He ...
A man claiming to be serving a prison sentence has said on the social media site TikTok that he had a burger from food chain ...
Probation officers have failed to arrange hundreds of thousands of meetings with the people they supervise over the past ...
A man serving a life sentence at HMP Isle of Wight hit a prison officer because, he claims, he was desperately seeking to get ...