Image: One of the cells within HMP Barlinnie HMIPS said: "The need for a replacement prison through the planned new HMP Glasgow remains overwhelming and urgent." It carried out a week-long ...

"What do HM Prison cells look like?" Shane Silby found himself in hot water after police discovered that he had been been downloading images of children as young as three years old, Hull Crown ...

Category C prison HMP Millsike, at Full Sutton, sprawls across an area equivalent to 39 football pitches and represents a significant step towards the government's ambition of adding 14,000 extra ...

A sacked HMP Liverpool officer claimed his repeated efforts to report personal safety concerns fell on deaf ears at the “increasingly unsafe” prison. Experienced former officer Lewis Millar ...

Inmates at a North East prison are using shower gel and toothpaste to make their own drugs. Concerns over safety at HMP Durham have been raised in a new report into conditions at the jail ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. A female prison officer has admitted communicating with an inmate at HMP Norwich using an phone hidden in his cell. Naomi Ellis, 32, made a ...

The court was told that he was segregated following the attack and had since been transferred to HMP Portland in Dorset. Recorder Michael Turner gave him an additional 16 months in prison ...

The Head of Healthcare for HMP Humber accepted this was a serious oversight and the prison has initiated a review of its policy, according to the report. Mr Fox was sentenced to 14 months in ...

The rate of self-harm was the second highest at the women’s prison, which is in Cheshire, of all 12 women’s prisons, with more than 5,200 reported incidents in the past year, a report by HM ...

A series of leaked messages show staff at Welsh prison HMP Parc laughing at violent encounters with inmates. The BBC has seen messages showing staff at the prison in Bridgend making fun of self-harm ...

HMP Styal near Wilmslow has been named as the worst in the country for positive drug tests after an inspection in December An inmate at a prison where inspectors found high levels of self harm had ...

A prison has been told to review its training after a young inmate killed himself just 48 hours after being locked up. Simon Faherty was remanded in custody to HMP Elmley in Eastchurch ...