About 400 trashed cells and landings, started fires and raided pharmacies in the rampage at privately-run HMP Birmingham ... s hot water supply and a TV aerial stopped working.

The disturbance at G4S-owned HMP Birmingham saw up to 600 inmates run riot across four wings after keys were reportedly taken from a member of staff at the jail. Managers were forced to deploy ...

Prisons Minister Rory Stewart previously described HMP Birmingham as in a "fragile state" Troubled HMP Birmingham has been placed in temporary lockdown, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has confirmed.

Riot police outside HMP Birmingham on Friday. Four wings were taken over in a disturbance which took 12 hours to bring under control Rioting prisoners took over four wings over of HMP Birmingham ...

The Government has been forced to step in and take control of privately-run prison HMP Birmingham - one of the country’s biggest jails - which is beset by violence and where the inmates have ...

The Prison Officers’ Association (POA) confirmed that the lone prisoner, who is known to be disruptive, was on the roof of HMP Birmingham in Winson Green at around 4pm today (SUNDAY).

Specialist police teams take back all four wings at HMP Birmingham Injured prisoner earlier 'retrieved' from jail and is conscious Inmates contact BBC blaming 'poor conditions' for violence ...

HMP Birmingham was back in control of G4S this morning after a riot saw prisoners take control of one wing of the jail. Disturbances began when an unknown number of inmates refused to return to ...

The Ministry of Justice has seized control of HMP Birmingham ahead of a damning inspection report that reveals high levels of violence in the jail, as well as squalid living conditions and the ...