The next meeting of the Lewes History Group will be at 7.30 p.m. on Monday 14 July at King's Church, Brooks Road, when Mary Burke will speak to us about the life and times of Lewes resident John ...

Acott, of Sussex, was then released from prison in September 2021, but was again recalled for breaching his licence in May 2022. The parole board then directed the 79-year-old to be released in ...

Lewes Prison is "trapped" in a cycle of rising violence, self-harm and drug problems, an inspection has found. HM Inspectorate of Prisons found the East Sussex jail had a "serious drug problem" and ...

The Howard League for Penal Reform has responded to His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons’ independent review of progress on Lewes prison, published today (Wednesday 5 April). Inspectors revisited the ...

The six people who were rushed to hospital with food poisoning at HMP Lewes have all been discharged. Emergency services raced to the East Sussex prison yesterday. Paramedics treated three ...

Six prisoners and staff, struck down by suspected food poisoning at HMP Lewes in East Sussex, have been discharged from hospital. Police, ambulance and fire services attended on Thursday after 15 ...

HMP Lewes is a Category B men's prison with a capacity for 742 prisoners Credit: HMP Lewes Ambulances were called HMP Lewes, a Category B men’s prison in East Sussex, at around midday on Thursday.

Following the incident the category B prison in East Sussex was plunged into a lockdown but a Ministry of Justice source said police have now downgraded the investigation as the probe continues.

As a category B prison, HMP Lewes houses prisoners who are taken directly from court in the local area. Inspectors were damming about conditions at HMP Lewes in a February 2023 report, and were ...

East Sussex Fire and Rescue Service are also at the scene. “We can confirm that we are in attendance at the prison and are currently working with other agencies,” a spokeswoman said.