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From a prisoner's first night to visiting rights and education - a look at life inside one of the UK's 160 jails.

KEY STORIES

In pictures
The babies growing up in Britain's prisons

Prison threat
The challenge to Gordon Brown from the prisons strike

'Forgotten service'
Prison officers give their views on work in the UK's jails

PRISON ISSUES

Like half of suicides in prison, Wesley McGoldrick was on remand when he died.

OUTSIDE THE GATES

Five former prisoners on their experience of leaving prison and plans for the future.

AROUND THE WORLD

From the UK to the US and China - who has the world's most crowded prison system?

Facing up
Victims of crime hold prison inmates to account

Prison viewpoints
If jails are not working, what should they be like by 2016?

No more porridge
If Ronnie Barker's favourite is out, what are prisoners eating?