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“While there are cheaper memberships, with my son in prison for the first (and I hope last) time I need to know everything there is to know, from a trusted source, and my Enhanced membership gives me that”  – (Margaret C, Guildford)

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RECEPTION TO RELEASE:

Fully updated comprehensive sections on:

  • Early Days in Custody
  • Offending Behaviour Programmes
  • Criminal Cases Review Commission
  • Requests and Complaints
  • Prisoner Communications
  • Drugs and Alcohol in Prison Institutions
  • The Prison Disciplinary System
  • Support – Who Can Help?
  • Healthcare
  • Religion
  • Equality Age, Gender, Disability & Race
  • Social Security and Discharge Grants
  • Release and Recall
  • Indeterminate Sentences
  • Women Prisoners
  • Young Offenders (18-21 year olds)
  • Young People (15-17 year olds)
  • Foreign Nationals
  • Disability in Prison
  • Employment, Training & Skills
  • Work and Pay
  • Incentives and Earned Privileges
  • Civil Partnerships & Equal Marriage
  • Elderly Prisoners
  • Segregation
  • Security categorisation
  • Repatriation to the UK (Post Brexit)
  • THE VIEW FROM HERE: Articles and opinion on prison issues by experts in their field
  • PRISON STAFF
  • This Section is about prison staff, becoming a prison officer and a prison governor:
  • Prison Officers: How to become a Prison Officer.
  • Prison Governors: How to become a Prison Governor.
  • WATCHDOGS
  • Independent bodies that have a duty to Inspect and Monitor the criminal justice system:
  • Criminal Justice Joint Inspections – hundreds of Joint Inspection Reports, from 2000 to date
  • HMI CPS Inspectorate – 350 Inspection reports divided into: Area Assurance, Area, Annual and Audit, and Ad Hoc Reports
  • IMB Reports – thousands of Independent Monitoring Board Annual Reports on every prison and YOI in the country, from 2009 to date
  • NPM Reports– Key Documents and details of all 21 statutory organisations that make up the National Preventive Mechanism
  • PPO Reports – thousands of death in custody reports, fully cross-referenced you won’t find anywhere else and right up to date
  • HM Prisons Inspectorate Reports – over 1,00 prison and YOI inspection reports- and their Thematic Reviews too, from 2005 to date
  • HM Probation Inspectorate Reports – over 1,500 Probation Inspectorate reports – and their Thematic Reviews too right up to date
  • NEWS DESK Breaking News on prisons as it happens Latest Rules, Reports & Policies as they are issued
  • PRISONERS & THE LAW 2025
  • The law relating to prisoners is complex, their rights depend on their status as remand or convicted prisoners, as adults or young offenders,  male or female – or transgendered – and also their sentence length and security categorisation. This section, edited by expert prison law Barristers, examines prisoners and the law.
  • Prisons Legal Cases Database
  • The Sentencing Act 2020
  • Introduction to the Law & Prisoners
  • Prison Rules 1999 (Correct to date)
  • YOI Rules 2000 (Correct to date)
  • Parole Board Rules 2019 (Correct to date)
  • The Prison Act 1952 (Correct to Date)
  • The Prisons (Substance Testing) Act 2021
  • A-Z Index of over 400 prison law subjects
  • Appeals
  • Websites of Interest
  • Young Offender Institution Rules 2000 (Correct to date)
  • CRIMINAL CASES REVIEW COMMISSION DATABASE
  • Fed up with searching for CCRC cases referred to the Court of Appeal, the case details, why they were referred and the outcome of the case? Well now you don’t have to – it’s all here on the full CCRC Database of over 400 cases.
  • PARLIAMENTARY JUSTICE SELECT COMMITTEE
  • Containing almost 1,000 Published Reports and Evidential Correspondence from the Parliamentary Justice Select Committee, from Parliamentary Sessions for every year right back to 2002-2003
  • PRESS RELEASE DATABASE Containing Press Releases issued by
  • G4S – the private prison company going back to 2009
  • HM Prison & Probation Service going back to 2014
  • Ministry of Justice – thousands of press releases, going back to 2009
  • Parole Board – all Parole Board press releases going back to 2013
  • Prisons & Probation Ombudsman – containing almost 100 ‘Learning Lessons Bulletins’ and Media releases, and our Deaths in Custody Database carries over 2,300 of the PPO’s Fatal Incident Reports, set out by year, and by individual establishment, and by the name of the deceased – something you do not get anywhere else.
  • Probation Inspectorate – over 650 press releases, from 2013 to the present day
  • Serco – press release by the private prison company Serco
  • Sodexo – press release by the private prison company Sodexo
  • FACTS & FIGURES – comprehensive sections on:
  • Anti-corruption
  • Awards & Prizes
  • Banged Up Abroad: Packs
  • Basic Custody Screening Tool
  • Community Performance Quarterly
  • Cost per Prisoner Place 2015-present
  • Counter Terrorism Statistics
  • Crime Statistics
  • Criminal Justice Quarterly
  • Civil Justice Quarterly
  • Forthcoming Publications
  • Freedom of Information Act Releases
  • Freedom of Information Act Database
  • Guidance Database
  • Healthcare in Prison
  • HMPPS Annual Digest
  • HMPPS Annual Offender Equalities
  • HMPPS Other Corporate Reports
  • HMPPS Annual Staff Equalities
  • Incident Management
  • Knife and Crime Sentencing Database
  • Legal Aid Statistics Database
  • Justice Data Lab Stats
  • Law Commission Database
  • MAPPA Annual Reports
  • MAPPA Policies, Papers & More
  • MOJ Service Specifications
  • Offender Management Statistics 2010-present
  • Parliamentary Questions
  • Parole Board
  • Parole Board – Reconsideration Mechanism
  • Payment by Results Statistics – Final
  • Prison Performance Ratings
  • Prison Population 2010 to Present
  • Prison Estate
  • Probation Reform
  • Proven Reoffending 2009-Present
  • Proven Reoffending Tables 2000-2009
  • Race and the Criminal Justice System
  • Regional Reducing Reoffending Plans
  • Research Briefings
  • Safety in Custody Quarterly Bulletin
  • Safety in the children and young people secure estate
  • Secure video calls with prisoners
  • Serious Further Offences
  • Terrorism
  • Violence Reduction
  • Women and the Criminal Justice System
  • Workforce Quarterly Bulletin
  • MOJ Workforce Annual Monitoring
  • YJB Reports
  • Youth Justice Reports
  • Youth Justice Statistics from 2008
  • CONVERSE
  • For 18 years the largest circulation national monthly prisons newspaper, 40-pages, 50,000 copies, delivered monthly in print to all prisons in England and Wales – and also available digitally via the Ministry of Justice prison-in-cell technology system in public and private prisons and downloaded each month in around 100 prisons to over 2,500 offline prisoner education laptops!
  • INSTRUCTIONS, ORDERS AND POLICY FRAMEWORKS
  • Instant access to all Prison Service Instructions, Orders, and Policy Frameworks that are currently in force – updated daily
  • RESEARCH REPORTS & VINTAGE PUBLICATIONS
  • Instant access to valuable research publications:
  • The Prisons Handbook 2025
  • The Cell Companion 2025
  • Prison Law Index 2025
  • Vintage & Valuable Publications
  • The State of The Prisons: John Howard (1777)
  • Prison Commissioners: First 20 years
  • Prison Commissioners Database
  • The Punishment and Prevention of Crime 1885
  • English Prisons Today from 1922
  • English Prisons Under Local Government 1922
  • Penal Discipline 1922
  • The Du Parcq Report 1932
  • The Mountbatten Report 1966
  • The Radzinowicz Report 1968
  • The May Report 1979
  • Frightened For My Life – An Account of Deaths in British Prisons 1982
  • The Maze Prison Escape 1983
  • Managing The Long-Term Prison Population 1984
  • The Breakfast Before Duty Riots 1986
  • The Woolf Report 1991
  • The Wymott Prison Riot 1993
  • The Learmont Report 1994
  • The Woodcock Report 1995
  • The Carter Report 2003
  • The Zahid Mubarek Report 2006 Vol 1
  • The Zahid Mubarek Report 2006 Vol 2
  • The Corston Report 2007
  • The Bradley Report 2009
  • The IMB Karen Page Report 2014
  • The Harris Review Report 2015
  • The Dame Sally Coates Report 2016
  • The Farmer Report For Men 2017
  • The Lammy Report 2017
  • Mental Health in Prisons Report 2017
  • The Farmer Report for Women 2019
  • Farmer Report Update
  • Black Drugs Review Report 2020
  • Black Drugs Review Report 2021
  • Kerslake Rough Sleeping Interim Report July 2021
  • Kerslake Rough Sleeping Final Report September 2021
  • Terrorism in Prison Report, Jonathan Hall KC, April 2022
  • The Angiolini Report Part 1, Elish Angiolini KC, February 2024
  • Prison Governor’s Journal, Brendan O’Friel, June 2024
  • The Henley Report: The CCRC and Andrew Malkinson, July 2024.
  • Crime and Justice Commission Report – April 2025
  • Independent Sentencing Review 2025 – 22 May 2025
  • GOVERNING GOVERNORS & PGDs
  • Current list of Governing Governors for all prisons and YOIs and Prison Group Directors
  • PERSONAL INJURY IN PRISON
  • With violence in prisons at record levels we make this important section free to all – an expert explanation of personal injury in prison by Express Solicitors.
  • New content is added every day

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Standard Membership

£8.99

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STANDARD Membership gives you access to information on all Prisons and Young Offender Institutions – PLUS access to the comprehensive 26 chapter Advice Section, spanning reception into prison right the way through to release from it. But it does not provide access to any of the many other sections on the Prison Oracle – you’ll need Enhanced Membership to access all those.

“There is just so much information available with my standard membership that this works for me”  – (David McB, Stockport)

See What's Included
  • Early Days in Custody
  • Offending Behaviour Programmes
  • Criminal Cases Review Commission
  • Requests and Complaints
  • Prisoner Communications
  • Drugs and Alcohol in Prison Institutions
  • The Prison Disciplinary System
  • Support – Who Can Help?
  • Healthcare
  • Religion
  • Equality Age, Gender, Disability & Race
  • Social Security and Discharge Grants
  • Release and Recall
  • Indeterminate Sentences
  • Women Prisoners
  • Young Offenders (18-21 year olds)
  • Young People (15-17 year olds)
  • Foreign Nationals
  • Disability in Prison
  • Employment, Training & Skills
  • Work and Pay
  • Incentives and Earned Privileges
  • Civil Partnerships & Equal Marriage
  • Elderly Prisoners
  • Segregation
  • Security categorisation
  • Repatriation to the UK (Post Brexit)

Basic Membership

£5.99

Per Month

BASIC Membership gives you just that, basic access to prison entries from Altcourse to Wymott – but nothing more. As such it is ideal for those who just want basic information on each prison. Basic membership does not provide access to any other section, such as the comprehensive 26 chapter Advice Section, spanning reception into prison right the way through to release from it, or any of the many other sections on the Prison Oracle – you need Enhanced Membership to access all those.

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