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The supermarket opened at HMP Oakwood last month to help inmates adjust to the outside world when they are released. Prisoners who earn currency for good behaviour can swap the 'Monopoly-style ...
The first prisoners are now locked inside the new £400m state-of-the-art HMP Millsike, where almost 1,500 prison places will help ease the nation’s chronic overcrowding crisis. HMP Millsike ...
Iceland has begun its new vocational training at the privately-owned HMP Oakwood in Featherstone where prisoners get the chance to 'gain work experience' and 'adjust to the outside world'.
Prisoners at HMP Lewes were paid almost £130,000 in compensation for injuries sustained in jail in the last five years. New data obtained by Legal Expert, has revealed that between 2020 and 2024 ...
The monthly rate for assaults on staff and other inmates at HMP Frankland, in County Durham, hit 183.8 per 1,000 prisoners – the highest rate since at least 2016, and up from 169.5 last year.
The first 'in prison' supermarket has been opened inside Britain's largest nick. Food chain Iceland launched the new store inside HMP Oakwood in Featherstone, Staffordshire to help prisoners ...
Raymond McCourt, 59, was reported missing to police around 5.30pm on Tuesday after he absconded from HMP Castle Huntly in Dundee, Police Scotland said. The public has been warned not to approach him.
Alan Blake was convicted for taking drugs and a phone into a prison on July 13, 2023 and he was sentenced to 27 months in prison before he was taken to HMP Altcourse and then onto HMP Berwyn.