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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 ...

Inspectors have described Scotland's notorious HMP Barlinnie as being in a "wretchedly poor state" while operating at 30% over capacity. HM Inspectorate of Prisons for Scotland (HMIPS) is ...

A probe has been launched after an inmate was injured during an incident between prisoners at HMP Northumberland. A spokeswoman for the jail, in Acklington near Morpeth, said one man was taken to ...

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 ...

The Prison Officers' Association (POA) said terrorist prisoner Hashem Abedi was involved an attack on three Prison Officers working in a separation centre at HMP Frankland today. The association ...

A sacked HMP Liverpool officer claimed his repeated efforts to report personal safety concerns fell on deaf ears at the “increasingly unsafe” prison. Experienced former officer Lewis Millar ...

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'.

Prison officers are calling on the justice secretary to allow the use of electric stun guns in the UK’s most dangerous jails following an attack on guards at HMP Frankland last week. Mark ...

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 ...