Last year, the government released more than 2000 prisoners early as part of an emergency plan to ease overcrowding in the ...

The ambitious 2021 plans to introduce 20,000 new prison places by the mid-2020s are set to be delivered five years behind ...

The number of prisoners in England and Wales has reached a six-month high, despite thousands of inmates being released early ...

More than 50 inmates in an Indonesian prison staged an escape as officers scrambled to stop them. Video showed the prisoners ...

Due to overcrowded prisons in England and Wales, the UK government reinstates 'Operation Safeguard', allowing police cells to house inmates temporarily. The prison population has doubled over 30 years ...

Prisons are out of control with violence increasing and drug use rampant, Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood has been warned.

Police cells will temporarily be used to hold prisoners in a stop-gap measure to cope with overcrowding in jails, the British ...

The British government enacted 'Operation Safeguard' to manage prison overcrowding by holding inmates in police cells temporarily. This response follows a surge in the prison population in England and ...

The British government announced that police cells will be temporarily used to hold prisoners as a temporary measure to combat prison ...

The crisis followed the last Conservative Government's failure to fulfil its promise to build up to 20,000 more prisons ...

Overcrowded prisons will face “total gridlock in a matter of months” and run out of space in 2026 despite emergency measures to release prisoners early, MPs have warned. A damning report from the ...