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 scene at HMP Birmingham where a disturbance took place. The trouble is reported to have been taking place across a number of wings at the privately-run prison, with claims also made in local ...

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 ...

HMP Birmingham was designed by Birmingham architect Daniel Hill and opened in 1848 In October 2011 HMP in Birmingham became the first publically managed prison in the UK to be privatised.

The Ministry of Justice is stepping in to take over the running of HMP Birmingham after officials decided private contractor G4S could not cope with the out-of-control prison. It comes after a ...

It may come as little surprise that the latest prison disturbance erupted at HMP Birmingham. It's in the top 20 of the UK's most overcrowded jails and its 1,469 inmates form the fourth biggest ...

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 ...

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 ...