A woman who was serving an 8-week prison sentence for shoplifting has been found dead in her cell. She was found at Foston Hall prison in Derbyshire. Paramedics tried to revive her but she w... Read more
A jury verdict in a death penalty case earlier this year in Fort Worth is a microcosm of what is happening all over the US state of Texas. Read more
INQUEST would like to draw attention to its separate findings on the number of young prisoners, aged 18-24, who have taken their lives between January 2000 and June 2015. Read more
Joseph Scholes and Adam Rickwood died within weeks of being placed in penal institutions. Carolyne Willow met the boys’ mothers, and tells their stories in her shocking book, Children Behind... Read more
Nebraska State Senator Colby Coash (R-Lincoln), a conservative Republican (although Nebraska’s unicameral legislature is nominally non-partisan), tells an interesting story about his evoluti... Read more
Nearly eight years ago, the judge presiding over the inquest into the restraint death of 15-year-old Gareth Myatt in Rainsbrook secure training centre in 2004 wrote to the then justice secre... Read more
Sentencing to death those who commit heinous crimes satisfies a sense of moral proportionality. This is, however, purchased with disproportionate social costs, as Nebraska seems to be conclu... Read more
Relatives of Birmingham prisoner Adnan Rafiq – who predicted his own death in a chilling letter to jail bosses – have spoken of their grief after an official report found more could have bee... Read more
After an international outcry authorities have allowed family members of imprisoned journalist and former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal to visit him for the first time since he blacked out f... Read more
The unprecedented and sad occurrence that swallowed-up Chikurubi Maximum prison on Friday the 13th, cries for policy attention. The prison authorities should take a thorough post-mortem of t... Read more
