Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood said “we simply cannot build our way out of the prisons capacity crisis” as she opened a ...

Harri Pullen, 27, had been freed from prison, where he struck up his illicit romance, but is being hunted again over alleged ...

Scotland's chief inspector of prisons has drawn comparisons between the notorious Strangeways riot and the overcrowding crisis in the ...

A prisoner described by his mum as "very caring" died after taking a 'bad batch' of drugs circulating on his wing. An inquest into the death of Lewis Rhys Thomas Petryzyn, held at Pontypridd coroner’s ...

Prison capacity is already back at 99 per cent following the early release of more than 3,000 inmates last year ...

Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood backs sentencing tsar David Gauke's plan for shorter sentences to solve jail overcrowding ...

Harri Pullen, 27, is on the run from police in Wales who want him in connection to alleged drug offences. Four women, aged ...

Lawyer Aamer Anwar has called for a meeting with UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer to push for the lifting of Crown immunity.

The justice secretary has not ruled out shortening the sentences of violent offenders in a drive to create more space in an ...

Category C prison HMP Millsike ... The opening comes as Ms Mahmood re-enacted the use of police cells to hold prisoners as jail occupancy reached a six-month high. Speaking at the opening of ...

The new prison comes after the Government began the expansion of 700 places at HMP Highpoint in Suffolk earlier this month and a new 460-space houseblock was opened to prisoners at HMP Rye Hill in ...

A LAG who had flings with a prison officer and a jail nurse at the same time is now wanted by police – after going on the run ...