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

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

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

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 ...

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A prisoner at HMP Birmingham murdered his cellmate then smiled and made a death gesture to guards, a court heard. Vitalie ...

Not enough progress has been made at HMP Garth since a scathing inspection last year, an independent review has found.

A home office doctor has warned jurors about the “complex” restraint-related death of a father-of-four prisoner, an inquest heard. Azroy Dawes-Clarke, 28, from Romford, east London, was an inmate at ...

A schizophrenic prisoner was kept in an almost black cell with broken windows - and hadn’t seen his mental health worker in ...

Two gang members who attacked the homes of rivals with weapons, including a submachine gun and petrol bombs, have been ...

The British public’s “gut instinct” should count when reviewing criminal cases, Richard Tice said as he proposed a Bill named after Lucy Connolly, who was jailed for social media posts in the wake of ...

The Ministry of Justice said this is the first time a direct link has been drawn between increased violence behind bars and the overcrowding crisis.