According to the most recent monthly England and Wales prison population stats for April 2025, the facility at Haverigg is close to capacity. The Cumbrian prison has a reported capacity of 499.

A prison officer who received emergency treatment after being attacked at a high security jail was stabbed with a weapon from outside of prison, Sky News understands. The 25-year-old officer was ...

It is not known how the weapon was brought into the prison. However a recent inspection of HMP Long Lartin in Worcestershire described the "incursion of drones" as "an increasingly critical problem" ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. A former HMP Frankland prison officer who was attacked by a prisoner in 2010 has slammed the Government's announcement that body armour will ...

West Mercia Police said officers were called to HMP Long Lartin in South Littleton, Worcestershire, shortly after 10am on Friday morning. The 25-year-old "sustained serious injuries and was ...

HMP Frankland is a "safe" place for staff and prisoners a new report has found just a month after an attack by Manchester Arena bomb plotter Hashem Abedi. However, the health of both inmates and ...

Kemp, from Torre Close, Bletchley, had worked with two men to smuggle drugs into HMP Spring Hill, HMP Woodhill and HMP Erlestoke. She pleaded guilty to misconduct in a public office and conspiring ...

A prisoner serving their time HMP Dartmoor contacted his ex-partner on a smuggled mobile phone around 700 times from his cell to launch what a judge called "extremely abusive and threatening ...

A prison ombudsman has expressed his concerns after a former HMP Nottingham inmate died only 11 days after his release. Thomas McMahon, 33, was sentenced to 24 weeks in prison in July 2023 after ...

This major event is an endurance challenge where the entrants determine their own route from HMP Dartmoor, with the aim to achieve the furthest distance in a given time. At midday the sound of ...