News and communications

Over 120,000 former offenders will find it easier to get work and turn their lives away from crime following a change in the law.

• Updated: 30 October 2023

Vast new ’no-fly zones’ will be enforced over all prisons in England and Wales to crack down on gangs using drones to smuggle drugs, phones and weapons that drive criminality behind bars.

• Updated: 23 October 2023

GFSL regularly operates Purposeful Prisoner Working Programmes, giving prisoners the opportunity to work alongside our trade teams in all roles from electrical to painting and decorating.

• Updated: 18 October 2023

Public consultation launched on first UK-wide guidelines for clinical treatment of harmful drinking and alcohol dependence.

• Updated: 16 October 2023

HM Prisons and Probation Service (HMPPS) has appointed Rommel Moseley and Nick Campsie as non-executive directors.

• Updated: 10 October 2023

The Justice Secretary Alex Chalk has announced new measures that will allow the government to rent prison cells overseas to ensure dangerous offenders can be locked up for longer.

• Updated: 3 October 2023

HMP Woodhill will take urgent action to improve safety, security and living conditions including specialist psychological staff to support prisoners at risk of self-harm.

• Updated: 29 September 2023

Overhaul of learning behind bars to include specialist teaching staff, apprenticeships and digital reading tools.

• Updated: 29 September 2023

The Ministry of Justice has launched a major new advertising campaign to tackle recruitment and retention, by showing the reality of life as prison and probation officers.

• Updated: 28 September 2023

Working with our colleagues within HMPPS, Gov Facility Services at HMP Warren Hill have been busy supporting the Clean, Rehabilitative, Enabling and Decent (CRED) programme on a war memorial project.

• Updated: 25 September 2023

The Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor has announced the interim appointment of Sue McAllister as His Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Probation.

• Updated: 25 September 2023

The Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor has announced the Royal reappointment of Charlie Taylor as His Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Prisons.

• Updated: 25 September 2023

Offenders will be put to work to pay back the communities they have harmed as part of a week-long nationwide clean-up of Britain’s coastline.

• Updated: 22 September 2023

Gov Facilities Services Limited (GFSL) are excited to announce the launch of the new GFSL careers website.

• Updated: 4 September 2023

More than 750 graduates have now swapped university halls for prison walls as demand for the Unlocked Graduates scheme reached new heights.

• Updated: 1 September 2023

Prisons Minister Damian Hinds has today (25 August 2023) outlined a package of urgent reforms to improve safety, rehabilitation and performance at HMP Bristol.

• Updated: 25 August 2023

The former Rainsbrook Secure Training Centre is set to reopen as a Category C men’s prison, in the latest of a string of measures to boost jail capacity, Prisons Minister Damian Hinds has announced today.

• Updated: 2 August 2023

Controlling ex-partners who lash out at the end of their relationship will face longer than ever behind bars under new government plans to tackle domestic homicide.

• Updated: 19 July 2023

A record number of offenders at risk of homelessness will be temporarily housed in basic accommodation as part of a national initiative to cut crime, Prisons Minister Damian Hinds has announced.

• Updated: 18 July 2023

Hundreds of prisoners are being encouraged to take jobs in the retail and logistics sector on release to plug skills gaps in entry level roles, helping reduce reoffending while supporting businesses.

• Updated: 10 July 2023