While successive governments have tried to show they were "tough on crime" it has resulted in prisons being on the "brink of ...

Staff have reported a "rodent infestation", broken CCTV cameras, faulty lighting and an "ongoing legionella issue" across the ...

UK’s prison overcrowding crisis fuelled by ‘tough on crime’ talk, Labour’s new tsar finds - David Gauke, former Conservative ...

Toni Cole, 29, who also kissed the criminal and sat on his lap, is jailed for forming a ‘sexualised’ and ‘flirtatious’ ...

The independent review says successive governments made "knee jerk" decisions to issue longer prison sentences.

Pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai is physically breaking down in a Hong Kong prison and "time is running out" for him if ...

The first of up to 390 prisoners are being released early in the latest attempt to ease overcrowding in Scotland's jails.

Conditions in UK prisons have "drastically deteriorated" after the previous Tory government decided to privatise all maintenance work, according to a new report. The Prison Officers Association ...

In fields are "lumps and bumps", Peterborough Archaeology says, as well as a memorial to 1,770 prisoners who died there. The ...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has told a mother who has been on hunger strike for 140 days that he will press the ...