Serving offenders from HMP Thorn Cross have begun working with young people at risk of school exclusions on a boxing programme in Cheshire – with immediate results for both parties. 

Sport and physical activity are at the heart of an innovative project aimed at helping rehabilitate young people held at Medway Secure Training Centre in Kent. 

Janet Sylvester from Leeds Rhinos Foundation reflects on how they've overcome many hurdles in setting up two sport-based prison projects working with offenders.

Read how HFE's partnership with the Prisoners' Education Trust is offering incarcerated offenders a priceless chance of rehabilitation and employment in the health and fitness industry.

The 'Alternative Lives’ prison programme delivered by Exeter City, Plymouth Argyle and Cardiff City FC community trusts has hugely benefited participants, coaches and prison staff.

The Alliance of Sport is delighted that the UK's successful prison parkrun programme has now expanded to Australia.

The Alliance of Sport has completed a Sport England-funded pilot project in two secure establishments in Kent which tested the effectiveness of sports clubs on reducing offending. 

Professor Rosie Meek, an Alliance of Sport advisor, recently spoke to Radio New Zealand about her research into the benefits of sport and physical activity in prisons. Listen to it here.

Professor Rosie Meek gives some honest thoughts on the progress achieved in the six months since the publication of her landmark ‘Review of Sport in Youth and Adult Prisons’.

Inside Workout, a free fitness and wellbeing magazine designed specifically for inmates, is about to launch in prisons across the UK.

Read all about a new prison rugby project in Hong Kong, set up with the Alliance of Sport's help, that aims to link young offenders with training, education and employment post-release.

Exeter City, Cardiff City and Plymouth Argyle are working with local prisons to develop life skills and opportunities for offenders as part of a ground-breaking initiative called Alternative Lives.