The family of a woman killed by a psychotic prison leaver has said she “paid with her life for lapses in the English prison ...

The Government is recruiting 82 specialist staff at prisons across England and Wales to process the deportation of foreign ...

Ministers have acted immediately to end the practice of placing girls in young offender institutions following recommendations from Susannah Hancock’s independent review into the placement and ...

A man has been jailed after he conveyed cannabis into a prison as a visitor by hiding the drug in his shoes. On 6 October ...

A female prison officer has been sentenced to 21 months after a court heard that she performed a sex act on an inmate. The 26 ...

After a man remanded in HMP Durham took his own life the day he arrived, the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman has criticised ...

Sometimes my work takes me to meetings where I struggle to find anything interesting to write. That certainly does not apply ...

A prisoner climbed onto the roof of an outbuilding at HMP Berwyn and stayed there for nine hours, hurling pieces of the roof ...

Rocky free! Rapper dodges  knockout verdict A$AP Rocky walked out of a Los Angeles courtroom a free man last month after ...

The report this month comes from Wandsworth, where one of the groups chose Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca. The novel was first ...

Singer, author and TV personality Mel B has told National Prison Radio that anyone suffering from domestic abuse should reach ...

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