The Prisoners' Advice Service provides free legal advice and support to adult prisoners in England and Wales on their rights. They can also take up prisoners’ complaints about their treatment inside prison.

Links to information sheets about transfers, foreign nationals in the prison system, property claims, home detention curfews, incentives & earned privilege scheme, mandatory drug testing, categorisation, release on temporary licence, recall, healthcare complaints, probation complaints, disability discrimination, lifers, release, licence and conditions, sex offences, work, pay and education and visits.

Information about prison life, including prisoner privileges and rights, healthcare, education and work.

A helpline for prisoners and family and friends of a person in prison in need of advice and information. The helpline can reached through phone, voicemail, letter and email.

Information for prisoners with a disability about their health, daily life, and how to get help in prison and on release. The information is available in an easy-read format.

Information for people convicted of a sex offence on release from prison. It may also be helpful to families, employers and people working with those convicted of a sex offence.

The Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO) investigates complaints made by prisoners, young people in detention, offenders under probation supervision and immigration detainees and the deaths of prisoners, young people in detention, and immigration detainees due to any cause, including any apparent suicides and natural causes.

This information is aimed at prisoners with a mental illness but some information would be useful for anyone going to prison or knows someone going to prison. Explains the different types of prisons and prisoners, arriving at prisons and advice for relatives. It also links to further articles and other organisations that can give information and advice on a range of queries you may have about prison.

These are the most common types of prison sentences. It is where the judge sets the maximum time you will spend in custody. You may spend some of your sentence time in prison and some on licence. This page explains how the length of your sentence affects the amount of time you spend on licence.