In this month’s 40 packed pages we lead with the millions of pounds it is likely to cost after a coroner demanded changes to the cell bell call system after a prisoner was found hanged and CCTV revealed he had pressed his cell bell for help – only for other prisoners to cancel the alert; a system defect the coroner says must be rectified. .… plus…

PPO launches national pregnant prisoner restraint investigation
The government can now send your parole decision to the High Court
Prison Ombudsman’s latest confirmed deaths in custody
Elmley IRP: Governor making good progress on 2025 inspection concerns
What a mess the MoJ & Parole Board have made of Rule 19
The Mount: Prison officer in court over alleged misconduct in public office
HMP The Verne IMB: 24-hour clinical care needed, says prison watchdog
Garth: Man charged with murder of fellow prisoner
Police officer who carried out unnecessary strip searches faces jail for series of sexual offences
Prison officers convicted of relationships with prisoners – figures at record high
CCRC referral – judge did not explain joint enterprise law
MPs say: Stop the expansion of HMP Parc
Chief inspector exposes forgotten remand prisoners (but forgot a major issue too)
Prisons Inspectorate report published: HMP/YOI Isis
Oral hearings U-turn could mean a fresh chance at release
Are you in the right prison?
Police take guns off the street – left there by firearms officers!
Prison space could run out again as work on a dozen jails stalls
Your healthcare is being let down – confirms an official report
Hewell: Urge for action after prisoner dies of starvation
Jury-free trials put judges at risk of violence, warns law chief
New rules on early release for foreign prisoners
Isle of Wight: Prison officers left bloodied after savage knife attack
Sentencing Act: New suspended sentence provisions take effect
Jeremy Vine stalker recalled to prison
Woodhill receives a second Urgent Notification
Exclusive! Independent Monitoring Boards are to merge with the Independent Prisons Inspectorate
Prison staff to receive 3.5% pay rise – but review body warns of crisis conditions
Maidstone: Reasonably safe, respectful, settled, strong staff-prisoner relationships
The price of imprisonment? Now £56,618 a year per prisoner
Obituary: Bobby Cummines
Does Integrated Offender Management actually work? New research has some answers
University scholarships for those personally affected by criminal justice
Full Sutton: Inmate charged with attempted murder of prison imam
IMB: HMP Durham effectively reduces prisoner self-harm levels
Chelmsford: Prisoner dies and several ‘overdose after dodgy spice’
Met cop jailed for 24 years for child rape
Leeds & Wealstun: New care contract supports vulnerable prisoners
Long Lartin: Prison officer had secret relationship with inmate
Pain-free ‘tripod’ restraint brought in to Scottish jails
HMP Eastwood Park: Prisoners with acute mental illness suffering lengthy delays before transfer to secure mental health hospitals
Eastwood Park: Delays detecting fire ‘led to prisoner’s death’
G4S Oakhill: Persistent, serious, pain-inducing restraint techniques on children continue – inspectors
Reversed: All major parole changes since December
Spotlight on HMP Maidstone
Bail: New law changes – who gets bail or stays on remand
Wakefield: Prisoner admits attempting to murder fellow inmate
Hatfield IMB: Inappropriate prisoners being sent to this Category D prison
Wandsworth: Prevention of Future Deaths report issued
Tags to track domestic offenders on probation in real time
Major funding boost to divert women from a life of crime
Ford IMB: Damning annual report – a prison doing more with less – but for how long?
Women’s Justice Board: Still no sign of Corston
Since 2010, 116,228 years of institutional ‘jail craft’ knowledge has been lost
Prison officer loses tribunal over transgender pronoun
Fosse Way: Inmate sentenced for killing fellow prisoner
Isle of Wight: Prisoner struck officer to ‘escape drug hit wing’
Bure: Actor John Alford found dead in his cell
Long Lartin: Poses significant risk to prisoners following the death of an inmate
Ranby: Prisoner gets 21 years for savage attack on prison officer
Norwich: Woman spared prison after trying to get drugs into jail
Risley: Prison officer jailed for inappropriate relationship with inmate
Whitemoor: Lifer gets extra four years for prison officer attack
CCRC: New chief executive takes up post

This and more in our 40 page April 2026 edition…