New HM Prison and Probation Service figures show there were 341 full-time equivalent staff members in post at Hindley prison as of December. It was down from 365 the year before. Meanwhile ...

Qualified and registered psychologists are sought across the North West to join the prison service and help make an impact on ...

A number of arrests were also made outside HMP Hindley in Wigan ... Strangeways was 'clearly undermining every aspect of prison life'. HM Chief Inspector of Prisons, Charlie Taylor, said in ...

An inquest blamed prison staff yesterday for failures that led to a teenager boy hanging himself. Seventeen-year-old Jake Hardy hung himself in his cell at HMYOI Hindley in Wigan on January 20 2012 ...