Pregnant women prisoners are being handcuffed to prison officers – often male – during intimate vaginal examinations and long, agonising births. Will this dehumanising treatment be stopped?

A volunteer said it was "quite monumental going from prison to Parliament" after speaking about her experience in the prison ...

A female prison guard working at the Wealstun Prison, near Wetherby in West Yorkshire, United Kingdom, is facing a prison sentence after she admitted to having an inappropriate relationship with an ...

"Good luck, because it's a shithole here," a prisoner shouts as we walk around the grounds at HMP Foston Hall. Other inmates described this women's prison in Derbyshire as a "holiday camp", even ...

The drugs crisis in English and Welsh prisons has reached “endemic” levels, “fostering a dangerous culture of acceptance that must be broken”, said the House of Commons Justice Committee. The prison ...