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

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

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

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

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

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

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Thousands of outstanding spaces are expected to be ...

Amid the clamor of Britain's packed prisons, a financial storm brews, with the public purse forced to meet the rising cost of staff injury claims.

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

Injury claims from assaulted UK prison staff cost nearly £50m since 2019, highlighting serious safety concerns ...

A DAMNING review of Jersey’s prison service has revealed a series of failings at La Moye, including the near collapse of ...