The much anticipated review of prison sentences by former Justice Minister David Gauke is due later this month. It’s expected ...

Ministers must build 53,000 new prison spaces to keep up with demand and ensure criminals are properly punished, according to ...

As Britain and India sign a new trade deal, Animal Policy International revealed the immense suffering of hens confined to ...

10 (UPI) --Britain began discharging about 1,750 inmates ... Taylor has previously called the overcrowding crisis "a ticking time bomb" that early releases would fail to defuse.

I've never seen it so bad. I've never seen it so overcrowded and I've never seen it so violent,' he told The Times. 'If we had to lock down a wing or an area day after day after day to get rid of ...

Prisons can be dangerous places for inmates and not always for the reasons you might expect. Over the last five years, tens ...

A league table of Britain's most overcrowded jails was published today by a prison reform charity. Inmates in more than 60% of prisons in England and Wales are being held in overcrowded conditions ...

Violence, self-harm and drugs availability are rising at Britain’s biggest public sector ... by an influx of short-stay prisoners from overcrowded jails in England. An unannounced visit by ...

Prison officers assured by Minister for Justice that electronic tagging of prisoners in place this year to ease overcrowding ...

Overcrowding has also led to hundreds of bodies being moved to other mortuaries in the past six months, and Mr Griffith said families were not being informed. The lead medical examiner for Wales ...