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

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

I am lucky in the sense that I’ve been out on my IPP sentence. While I was in the community in 2023/24, I passed a humanities ...

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

Each month, Inside Time lists the latest inspection reports for UK prisons. The latest report for your prison should be in the library Manchester  “Violence, drugs, poor time out of cell” ...

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

There’s a story about Roger Bannister running a mile in under four minutes back in 1954. Before that, people in white coats ...