Promoting reading and reading groups in prisons This month the focus is on some classic books – ones that have stood the test ...

This month the column comes from Damian Le Bas, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, who shares some favourite books ...

In the first case of its kind, a man in Scotland was recently sentenced to eight years’ imprisonment for culpable homicide after his wife took her own life. It is a tragic case, and my heart goes ...

It is 2026, and several years have passed since Covid regulations were lifted from prisons. Except at one. Wormwood Scrubs ...

There’s a lot of talk about prisons being full and run down. The system is broken. The probation service can’t cope with ...

HMP Edinburgh has become the first UK prison to be awarded a Bereavement Charter Mark for the compassionate way in which it ...

Reading the April issue of Inside Time, I was left bewildered that on page 10 there was a relatively small article about the ContraSCAN handheld scanner that can pick up traces of Spice and other ...

Why are all prisons so different in what you can or cannot have? We save up our minuscule wages, especially those who aren’t ...

When HM Inspectorate of Prisons (HMIP) visited Wormwood Scrubs and Pentonville in 2025, it issued scathing verdicts.

A prisoner who attacked a Jewish Chaplain at Whitemoor high-security prison has admitted that the attack was racially-motivated. The Chaplain was visiting prisoners on 14 September 2025. As he ...

I know how fortunate I am to have a job writing for Inside Time. I meet some remarkable people, and learn so much by ...

Each month, Prisoners’ Education Trust brings you details of a subject you could study in your cell  The positive mental ...