The Latest Breaking News from Timpson

Prison officers given more training to avoid being manipulated into illicit relationships with inmates

Exclusive: Enable programme in England and Wales follows cases where staff have become embroiled sexually or financially with criminals

The Guardian - UK · Apr 15

The UK scandal of women handcuffed while in labour: ‘I was so shocked when the restraints weren’t removed’

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

The Guardian - UK · Mar 4

Prison security systems not being fixed amid drug crisis, report finds

A report has found that key security systems in Britain’s prisons are being left unrepaired

The Independent UK · Feb 4

AI chatbot is Government's new recruit at HMP Wandsworth to stop inmates being wrongly freed

Prisons minister Lord Timpson said the southwest London jail had been given the ‘green light’ to use artificial intelligence

Evening Standard · Nov 10, 2025

Prisons in England and Wales to cut spending on education courses by up to 50%

Move comes despite election manifesto promises from Keir Starmer to improve ‘access to learning’

The Guardian - UK · Sep 14, 2025

Voices: I’ve spent decades inside prisons – here’s how I’ll fix them for good

COMMENT: In light of the Gauke sentencing review, prisons minister Lord Timpson explains why, to end the perma-crisis in our justice system, we must now embark on the largest expansion of jail places since the Victorian era

The Independent UK · May 23, 2025

Prisons set to run out of spaces again within a year despite early release scheme, MPs warn

Many prisoner are living in ‘inhumane conditions’ and the government must act now to avert disaster, the Public Accounts Committee has warned

The Independent UK · Mar 14, 2025

The UN has condemned the ‘psychological torture’ of IPP – when will the UK government?

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: Labour has already ignored the advice of the Parole Board – it cannot turn a blind eye to the UN’s recommendations

The Independent UK · Feb 8, 2025

Elderly activist to spend Christmas in prison because tag does not fit

Woman jailed for M25 protest not allowed to continue home detention because electronic tags are too big

The Guardian - UK · Dec 21, 2024

‘Don’t be on wrong side of history’: Indefinite jail terms compared to Post Office and Infected Blood scandals

Supporters say the government’s response to the ‘industrial-scale miscarriage of justice’ is not good enough, and praised The Independent for highlighting the issue

The Independent UK · Nov 15, 2024