The ambitious 2021 plans to introduce 20,000 new prison places by the mid-2020s are set to be delivered five years behind ...

Many prisoner are living in ‘inhumane conditions’ and the government must act now to avert disaster, the Public Accounts ...

The HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) remains operating 'hand to mouth', while the service acknowledges it as ...

MPs have warned the prison service is operating 'hand to mouth' as it scrambles from one crisis to another - with jails set ...

Rebecca Holloway, 31 was found dead at the HM Prison Low Newton in Durham, where she was serving a 12-and-a-half-year ...

A rural prison is to increase its capacity by more than 50% to become "the UK's largest" jail, the Ministry of Justice ... at ...

Locked in a glass cage under Wakefield Prison, quadruple killer Robert Maudsley has been condemned as Britain’s most ...

MPs also said the HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) remains operating “hand to mouth”, reacting to immediate crises like it found in 2020, and that the service acknowledges it as ...

A Westminster committee said lives are being increasingly put at risk by the Government’s historic failures to increase capacity.

A rural prison is to increase its capacity by more than 50% to become "the UK's largest" jail ... In January 2024, HM Inspectorate of Prisons said Highpoint was failing to deliver its core ...

MPs also said the HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) remains operating “hand to mouth”, reacting to immediate crises like it found in 2020, and that the service acknowledges it as “detrimental” ...