A newly-refurbished wing that was meant to provide 170 extra cells at HMP Norwich has only added 10 because two other wings at the jail have had to be closed. The £38 million renovation of the ...

Building work at HMP Lancaster Farms will see the number of places at the jail increase from 584 to 824, with new cells being introduced equipped with modern security features such as reinforced ...

Black boys in custody are more likely to have PAVA synthetic pepper spray used against them than their White counterparts, according to Ministry of Justice statistics. The data, released to the ...

Parliamentarians, trade union leaders and rank-and-file police officers have joined forces to call on the Government to order a Royal Commission on Prisons and the Justice System. A joint letter ...

A female prison officer at HMP Manchester who was 20 years old when she embarked on an affair with a prisoner has avoided being sent to jail. During the three-month fling, the woman told the ...

The Ministry of Justice has signed a contract with a major construction company to begin enabling works on the construction ...

A male prison officer at Styal women’s prison booked into a Premier Inn hotel for sex with a woman who had been released from ...

The Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) has referred the convictions of a woman who was groomed and exploited as a child ...

About 700 eligible prisoners will leave jails early in England and Wales on the morning of Thursday 1 October and some 2,550 ...

The rate of violence at Northern Ireland’s largest prison has more than doubled in four years, according to official figures obtained by the BBC. There were 149 recorded violent incidents at HMP ...

I’m writing in regard to the letter from Miss K Bates, ‘Family contact’ (Mailbag, August). I am having the same problem ...

It came in a whisper, a promise of peace,  A wafer-thin bandage for a heart’s deep release. At first, it was comfort; a warm, ...