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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

Almost Home has been co-curated by women in HM Prison & Young Offender Institution Low Newton
Becoming a Community Payback supervisor changed my life – and helped countless others
Community Payback supervisor Mick Howe
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
woman in prison
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

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
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
Barbed wire on a wall at a prison
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
Michael Quartey in Cardboard Citizens' No Walls, Still Trapped
Homelessness

This is how we break the cycle of homelessness and incarceration

'When I first went inside I wanted to die': What life's like inside a UK women's prison
The silhouette of a women standing in front of prison bars
Prisons

'When I first went inside I wanted to die': What life's like inside a UK women's prison

How Starmer's new prisons minister James Timpson wants to change the way we lock people up
Timpsons CEO James Timpson
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
prison
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
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 has seen some have their convictions overturned. Image credit: Sludge G / Flickr
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'
wagamama helping prisoners
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
prisoners sleeping rough
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'
Jodie Whittaker in Time
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

Joshua Luke Smith: Meet the rapper helping prisoners process their past through poetry
rapper/ joshua luke smith
Music

Joshua Luke Smith: Meet the rapper helping prisoners process their past through poetry

'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

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

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
‘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’

Charities call for multifaceted approach to help ex-offenders into work
Chancellor Rishi Sunak visits a branch of Timpson, where 10 per cent of the workforce are ex-offenders.
Employment

Charities call for multifaceted approach to help ex-offenders into work

Released from prison to homelessness: A battle against the odds
Housing

Released from prison to homelessness: A battle against the odds

Prison leavers must not be released into homelessness
Campbell Robb and John Bird

Prison leavers must not be released into homelessness