HMP Frankland has reopened the unit where a prisoner serving time for terrorism offences stabbed and scalded three officers ...

Work to extend a quarry near HMP/YOI Stoke Heath in Shropshire has been given the go-ahead by the local authority, but thanks ...

Levels of radioactive radon gas, which can cause lung cancer with prolonged exposure, have been reduced to within safe limits ...

The Armed Forces charity SSAFA (Soldiers’, Sailors’ and Airmen’s Families Association) has been awarded funding to launch an ...

Senior Labour MP Dame Emily Thornberry has called for the closure of Pentonville prison, which is in her Islington South ...

Prisons will use new tool called the “AI violence predictor” to determine the threat posed by individuals in custody and take ...

Drones were spotted at prisons in England and Wales on 1,712 occasions in 2024/25 – more than four times per day – according ...

Prisoners now face being Tasered after Shabana Mahmood, the Justice Secretary, authorised use of the electric stun guns in ...

More than 400 people died in English and Welsh prisons in the past 12 months, an increase of 30 per cent on the previous year ...

Standards are falling across prisons in England and Wales – by the Ministry of Justice’s own admission. Annual Prison ...

Prisoners applying to the Parole Board for release are increasingly likely to be rejected – leading to claims that the decision-makers have become more ‘risk-averse’. In 2024/25, parole panels ...

Please can we have some yard time Gov? Whilst the sun shines from above! Being banged up for so long, If you don’t let us out, the sun will be gone. Too busy, no staff, someone kicking off, you ...