I have to write to you about short prison sentences of under 12 months. A short sentence does nothing to help, and I’m sure ...

Do we still live in a country that upholds the mantra of innocent until proven guilty? If so, why are the police, politicians ...

I am currently residing on the Incentivised Substance-Free Living (ISFL) wing at HMP Cardiff and I’m just about to complete ...

Many years ago, I had a letter printed in Inside Time in which I spoke about the increasing death rate of prisoners serving the unlawful IPP (Imprisonment for Public Protection) sentence. At the ...

In the April issue of Inside Time, you ran an advertorial article titled ‘Tackling some myths about Accredited Programmes’.

On the Inside Time website in February, an anonymous prisoner from HMP Liverpool arrogantly declared himself better than the ...

One in five prisoners are convicted sex offenders. Really? I wonder how many on normal population are undercover, because we ...

What did they see? How do they feel? This is what I started to think about when I realised the damage I caused, not to just ...

It is often said that the punishment of prison is the deprivation of liberty. Whilst I agree, in principle at least, I think ...

It arrives with the shadow of the morning’s first bell A thin, white rectangle sliding through the door of my cell It hits ...

The Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) has referred the convictions of a young person—Mr HX—to the Crown Court after evidence emerged that he was a victim of human trafficking and modern ...

We hear lots of positive comments about the programmes running in prisons, but occasionally we come across some misunderstandings. Last month we shared some of these myths and the truth about them ...