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

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

Minister for Justice Jim O'Callaghan has said he is examining alternatives to custodial sentences to manage the chronic ...

This means 678 people were crammed into cells – 358 on ... if a major riot broke out. Prison Officers’ Association (POA) president, Tony Power, said the overcrowding crisis was “potentially ...

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

As the Trump administration moves to quickly expand immigration detention space, a series of standoffs have emerged between ...

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

Alarming levels of overcrowding, with some jails operating ... That’s how tens of thousands of prisoners are thrown into prison cells, left to suffer in silence. With abysmal hygiene and neglect ...

The male prison is also overcrowded - 28% over capacity - meaning ... that there are four to a cell, that is all increasing tensions and ensuring people are living in inhumane and degrading ...

A sharp escalation in prison overcrowding is creating a “breeding ... There are now 430 prisoners sleeping on mattresses on the floors of cells, almost treble the number this time last year ...

More than 350 prisoners are sleeping on the floors of cells in jails because of overcrowding, the annual conference of the Prison Officers’ Association (POA) will hear today. POA president Tony ...