The report by an Independent Monitoring Board (IMB), made up of volunteers tasked by ministers with scrutinising conditions ...

The most prisoners which it can hold without a serious risk to safety is 327, according to authorities. The watchdog found ...

He was due to be released from the Walton prison in two weeks when he was found hanging in his cell on February 19 2018. He ...

HMP Garth, a high-security men's prison in Lancashire, has been described as 'troubled' in a damning new inspection report which exposes a rampant drugs problem.

A high-security prison has become “an airport” because so many drugs are being delivered to its inmates by drones, a watchdog has warned. Charlie Taylor, chief inspector of prisons, said ...

In a report on HMP Garth published today (Tues), Chief Inspector of Prisons, Charlie Taylor wrote that prisoners were "continually burning holes in the prison windows at a faster rate than they ...

There was a 31 per cent increase in assaults on both staff and other prisoners between February last year and and the end of ...

A new prison with the capacity to house approximately 1,500 inmates has been inaugurated as part of the Government's strategy to alleviate overcrowding issues. The Category C facility, HMP ...

An unannounced inspection of HMP Parc in Bridgend in January found drugs were widely available, with deliveries to cell windows via drones. Seventeen inmates are known to have died at Parc in 2024 ...