A female prison officer caught smuggling drugs worth £35,000 into a prison for her inmate lover has been jailed. The ...

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

A man serving three life sentences was able to stab two officers on the maximum-security wing of high-security HMP Wakefield.

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

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 ...

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

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

Hand-crafted wooden chopping boards made in a workshop at HMP The Mount are in use at Hilton Hotels, Carluccios, Zizzi, and ...

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

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

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 ...