For MPs on the Justice Committee who toured HM Prison Brixton earlier this year, the answer proved to be eye-opening. With a near-maximum 740 inmates, Brixton may be the country’s most ...

HM Prison Brixton, the day begins... 6.30am, breakfast Nightshift officers wake those remand prisoners who are going to court. A bang on the metal cell door is usually enough. There are 52 of ...

And despite Brixton’s status as a “resettlement” prison – which is supposed to ... typically viewed as a key tool of rehabilitation. HM chief inspector Charlie Taylor said: “There ...

Inmates were spotted leaving HM Prison Brixton carrying bags as the first cohort of people were freed. The scheme, which comes into effect on Tuesday, will see 5,500 people released early in ...

Prison dinners are a glamorous affair at H.M.P Brixton. The Clink in Brixton is one of four institutions located at jails across the country. Prison catering manager Alberto Crisci launched the ...

People seen outside HM Prison Brixton in London (Jeff Moore/PA) “But my guess is that some of them may slip through the net. We have seen people being given tents because they’ve got nowhere.

“He grabbed her bottom in Brixton town centre ... is released she will want to move out of the area”, said Mr Dick. HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) said release procedures have ...

The report, by the Chief Inspector of Prisons Charlie Taylor says that “no accredited programmes” were being provided for the “more than 200” sex offenders held in Brixton prison at the ...

Brixton is London’s oldest prison and this year marks its bi-centenary. Over its 200 years, it has held hundreds of thousands of people and while all of them have different stories to tell, most are ...

Inmates of A and B wings in Brixton prison in south London are said to have smoked so much cannabis that its distinctive smell tainted the clothes of guards and visitors from the Independent ...