The UK’s first all-electric prison has officially opened in York, marking a significant milestone in the Ministry of ...

Image: One of the cells within HMP Barlinnie HMIPS said: "The need for a replacement prison through the planned new HMP Glasgow remains overwhelming and urgent." It carried out a week-long ...

Deliberations were called off a week after the jurors began deliberating the fate of former prison guard Darrell Smith.

The state parole board voted to release Roger Francis, who was twice convicted of killing 15-year-old Marialice Pike in 1967, ...

Franklin County officials and the Chickamauga tribe challenge Arkansas' prison plan as funding stalls and concerns over site ...

Inmates at a North East prison are using shower gel and toothpaste to make their own drugs. Concerns over safety at HMP Durham have been raised in a new report into conditions at the jail ...

Eugene Glimpse was sentenced Tuesday to 32 years to life in prison after he was convicted of sexually assaulting three ...

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A damning new report from HM Inspectorate of Prisons found there were more than 5,200 incidents of self-harm reported at the Cheshire prison in the last 12 months. Inspectors learnt that one ...

The court was told that he was segregated following the attack and had since been transferred to HMP Portland in Dorset. Recorder Michael Turner gave him an additional 16 months in prison ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. A female prison officer has admitted communicating with an inmate at HMP Norwich using an phone hidden in his cell. Naomi Ellis ...

HMP Styal near Wilmslow has been named as the worst in the country for positive drug tests after an inspection in December An inmate at a prison where inspectors found high levels of self harm had ...