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 ...

A prison where drug use is described as “rampant” has been blocked from installing CCTV on its outside wall due to its status as a grade II-listed building. The Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) at ...

After a man remanded in HMP Durham took his own life the day he arrived, the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman has criticised failures by officers to identify the risk. Ahmed Alshbli arrived at HMP ...