Lucky HMP Birmingham inmates will sit down to a feast this Christmas Day. BirminghamLive has discovered that the jail's Christmas food menu is pretty extensive compared to some other prisons in ...

Lucky HMP Birmingham inmates will sit down to a feast this Christmas Day. BirminghamLive has discovered that the jail's Christmas food menu is pretty extensive compared to some other prisons in the ...

You were observed engaging in consensual activity whilst on duty." An aerial view of HMP Birmingham. Picture: Alamy Begum's defence lawyer Andrew Baker said that she was "of previous good character" ...

Birmingham had the worst examples of living conditions, his report said, with cells that were "dirty, cramped and overcrowded". The report said of HMP Birmingham: "Some particularly vulnerable ...

Paramedics entering HMP Birmingham during the 2016 riot (PA) Mark Fairhurst, chairman of the Professional Trades Union for Prison, Correctional and Secure Psychiatric Workers (POA), said ...

Both G4S and the Ministry of Justice said the decision was a “mutual agreement”, and HMP Birmingham will now be run by the Whitehall department. The 15-year contract was meant to run until ...

Security firm G4S was awarded a 15-year contract to run HMP Birmingham in 2011. In August 2018, Peter Clarke, the chief inspector of prisons, said the jail had fallen into a "state of crisis" and ...

The Prison Service took back temporary control of HMP Birmingham, also known as Winson Green, in August A crisis-hit prison is being taken back into public ownership after the private company ...

Prisons Minister Rory Stewart previously described HMP Birmingham as in a "fragile state" Troubled HMP Birmingham has been placed in temporary lockdown, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has confirmed.

He said: “We have been clear that the situation at HMP Birmingham was unacceptable, and that the step-in was not only necessary but would be extended unless we were satisfied that sufficient ...