In an urgent notification letter to Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood, Mr Taylor said the number of weapons and illicit items ...

Prison received an “urgent notification” after a visit by inspectors who issued a critical report. The prison watchdog calls for "urgent" additional support for released prisoners. Steven ...

A Manchester prison with “catastrophic levels” of drugs, organised crime, high rates of violence and a rat infestation is in ...

A prison officer resigned today after it emerged he broke official rules by having lunch with Lord Archer while the disgraced Tory peer was on day release from jail. Police chiefs also ordered an ...

However, given the right protest, I hope I’d step up.” THE Revd Mark Coleman, who is 65, can tally 18 arrests calling for action on climate change, including a five-week sentence in HM Prison ...

A woman was caught smuggling cannabis in her bra to bring into a prison. Leah Burke, from Liverpool, was visiting an inmate at HM Prison Lowdham Grange in Nottinghamshire when she was found with a ...

A Grade I warder of the district prison in Gobichettipalayam was placed under suspension after he was caught possessing 30 numbers of sleeping pills on Thursday. Prison sources said that during ...

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Jason Hoganson gives a thumbs-up outside HM Prison Durham Owen Humphreys/PA The chief inspector said the main risk was that freed prisoners would end up homeless and, as a result, fall back into ...

Jason Hoganson (right) seen outside HM Prison Durham. Picture: Alamy Meanwhile chief inspector of probation Martin Jones predicted there would be early recalls on Tuesday. He suggested prisoners would ...

The chief head warder of a district prison in Gobichettipalayam was placed under suspension after a video call made by an inmate went viral on social media recently. V. Gowrishankar (25 ...