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People are still getting threatened with prison for council tax debt. This has got to change
Vikki Brownridge

People are still getting threatened with prison for council tax debt. This has got to change

Scotland and Wales removed the sanction of imprisonment for council tax debt years ago, but in England it remains a threat

Wasteman star Tom Blyth: Prison film is ‘a magnifying glass on masculinity’
Film

Wasteman star Tom Blyth: Prison film is ‘a magnifying glass on masculinity’

To make sure Wasteman captured prison culture correctly, the filmmakers joined forces with Switchback – a London-based charity that helps young prison leavers

More and more women are being released from prison into homelessness. It’s an ongoing cruelty
Fraser Maclean

More and more women are being released from prison into homelessness. It’s an ongoing cruelty

Fraser Maclean, policy manager at Commonweal Housing, writes about why women face challenges to the greatest extent after leaving prison

Letters: Adolescence didn’t feel like a drama – it’s too close to real life
Letters

Letters: Adolescence didn’t feel like a drama – it’s too close to real life

Poet laureate Simon Armitage on his years as a probation officer – and the redemptive power of poetry
Probation service

Poet laureate Simon Armitage on his years as a probation officer – and the redemptive power of poetry

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Almost Home: Unique exhibition showcases the ‘pain and hope’ of women in prison
Art

Almost Home: Unique exhibition showcases the ‘pain and hope’ of women in prison

Becoming a Community Payback supervisor changed my life – and helped countless others
Rehabilitation

Becoming a Community Payback supervisor changed my life – and helped countless others

No women should ever be sent to prison for enduring domestic abuse
Lucy Russell

No women should ever be sent to prison for enduring domestic abuse

Women are being sent to prison in UK for self-defence or being coerced: ‘I lost everything’
Criminal justice

Women are being sent to prison in UK for self-defence or being coerced: ‘I lost everything’

Prisoner turned actor Clarence Maclin on life inside Sing Sing – and starring in a film based on it
Film

Prisoner turned actor Clarence Maclin on life inside Sing Sing – and starring in a film based on it

65,000 people facing systemic inequities supported by over £1.8mil of Growth Impact Fund investments
Big Issue Invest

65,000 people facing systemic inequities supported by over £1.8mil of Growth Impact Fund investments

Rise in prison leaver homelessness should be a clear warning to the new government
Campbell Robb

Rise in prison leaver homelessness should be a clear warning to the new government

This is how we break the cycle of homelessness and incarceration
Homelessness

This is how we break the cycle of homelessness and incarceration

How Starmer’s new prisons minister James Timpson wants to change the way we lock people up
Prisons

How Starmer’s new prisons minister James Timpson wants to change the way we lock people up

Prison leavers are being neglected due to lack of digital skills. It’s time for change
Elizabeth Anderson

Prison leavers are being neglected due to lack of digital skills. It’s time for change

 ‘We lost a good man’: Tributes paid after death of journalist and ex-Inside Time editor Erwin James
In memoriam

 ‘We lost a good man’: Tributes paid after death of journalist and ex-Inside Time editor Erwin James

Everything you need to know about UK’s shameful Post Office scandal
Post Office scandal

Everything you need to know about UK’s shameful Post Office scandal

Wagamama launches cooking classes at female prison to give inmates ‘a second chance’
Prisons

Wagamama launches cooking classes at female prison to give inmates ‘a second chance’

Number of Welsh prisoners sleeping rough on release has trebled in one year
Rough sleeping

Number of Welsh prisoners sleeping rough on release has trebled in one year

Time season 2 star Jodie Whittaker: ‘People are leaving prison and they’re being given a tent’
Interview

Time season 2 star Jodie Whittaker: ‘People are leaving prison and they’re being given a tent’

Conversion therapy and rental reform: Key policies activists want to see at heart of King’s Speech
King's Speech

Conversion therapy and rental reform: Key policies activists want to see at heart of King’s Speech

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‘I had to do something’: Ex-prisoner explains how love for his kids helped him turn his life around
Justice system

‘I had to do something’: Ex-prisoner explains how love for his kids helped him turn his life around

Insulate Britain protesters face prison after fresh court summons
Insulate Britain

Insulate Britain protesters face prison after fresh court summons

New Holloway Prison site will have homes for women leaving the justice system
Housing

New Holloway Prison site will have homes for women leaving the justice system

‘I could be jailed for two years for blocking roads with Insulate Britain’
Insulate Britain

‘I could be jailed for two years for blocking roads with Insulate Britain’