With accounts of overcrowded cells, filth-choked showers, and a kitchen sink that drained directly onto the floor, a new ...

India’s prisons are turning into catastrophic death zones. Alarming levels of overcrowding, with some jails operating at up ...

The latest Ministry of Justice statistics have been released following the reimplementation of Operation Safeguard in March.

Violence, self-harm and drugs availability are rising at Britain’s biggest public sector prison, a report found. Positive ...

The government's efforts to fix the prison crisis may not work without "bold investment decisions", the leading union for the ...

The prison has inmates from Merseyside, Lancashire and Greater Manchester due to overcrowding in English jails ...

Police are investigating an alleged attack on a prison officer by Southport killer Axel Rudakubana on Thursday, it is understood. Rudakubana allegedly threw boiling water over the officer. A ...

HMP Berwyn in Wales has had positive progress impacted by the influx of short-stay prisoners from Merseyside, Cheshire and Lancashire as a result of overcrowded prisons in England. An unannounced ...

By Charlotte Lillywhite, Local Democracy Reporter The new governor of HMP Wandsworth has been slammed for failing to turn up ...

Conditions at Mountjoy Prison were described as ‘deplorable’ yesterday with prisoners crammed into cells and sleeping on ...

Remand detainees are people awaiting trial or sentencing who have not been convicted of a crime. Judge Stuart Wilson of the Johannesburg High Court inspected the facility on 3 April 2025. The prison ...