Prisons are set to overflow once again in 2026 despite thousands of convicts being released early, a new report has found, ...

"Open prisons have a valuable function as part of ... Wealstun prison, West Yorkshire, has seen 437 prisoners abscond in the five years since 1998, with 57 still not recaptured.

Open prisons have minimal security and allow eligible prisoners to spend most of their day away from the site on licence to carry out work, education or for other resettlement purposes.

Inmates have been using vaping devices to start fires in West Yorkshire prisons, a fire authority meeting has heard. There has been a 23% increase in the number of non-residential fires ...