HMP Rochester has made improvements in violence reduction despite a "challenging year", a report says [Getty Images] A Kent prison has made improvements in reducing violence and self-harm despite an ...

Former inmates have revealed the “disgusting” conditions they are living under in some of the UK’s most overcrowded prisons as new figures show the crisis is nearing breaking point. New figures show ...

The full extent of conditions at a rat-infested jail has been revealed in a report that calls for urgent improvements. The smell of rat urine was "overpowering" in some parts of Rochester Prison in ...

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Colin Lovett was found unresponsive at HMP The Verne in Portland, Dorset, in October 2022. The Northamptonshire jail is also criticised in a new report for rising levels of violence. The report also ...

A Kent prison has made improvements in reducing violence and self-harm despite an "extremely challenging" year, a report has found. An Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) found that HMP Rochester saw a ...