A female prison officer caught smuggling drugs worth £35,000 into a prison for her inmate lover has been jailed. The ...

A man serving three life sentences was able to stab two officers on the maximum-security wing of high-security HMP Wakefield.

Levels of radioactive radon gas, which can cause lung cancer with prolonged exposure, have been reduced to within safe limits ...

HMP Frankland has reopened the unit where a prisoner serving time for terrorism offences stabbed and scalded three officers ...

Work to extend a quarry near HMP/YOI Stoke Heath in Shropshire has been given the go-ahead by the local authority, but thanks ...

The criminal justice system fails victims of ‘coercive control’ who are often later accused of offending themselves, a report has claimed. The Centre for Women’s Justice (CWJ) presents the ...

Prisons will use new tool called the “AI violence predictor” to determine the threat posed by individuals in custody and take ...

Standards are falling across prisons in England and Wales – by the Ministry of Justice’s own admission. Annual Prison ...

Senior Labour MP Dame Emily Thornberry has called for the closure of Pentonville prison, which is in her Islington South ...

The Armed Forces charity SSAFA (Soldiers’, Sailors’ and Airmen’s Families Association) has been awarded funding to launch an ...

Pack your bags, you’re moving, I’ll be back to get you soon. Moving me to where sir? I hate to even leave this room! Severe ...

Prisoners now face being Tasered after Shabana Mahmood, the Justice Secretary, authorised use of the electric stun guns in ...