The ambitious 2021 plans to introduce 20,000 new prison places by the mid-2020s are set to be delivered five years behind ...

The HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) remains operating 'hand to mouth', while the service acknowledges it as ...

As depraved crossbow killer Kyle Clifford's fate has been sealed, the Mirror takes a look at his dark and lonely future ...

MPs have warned the prison service is operating 'hand to mouth' as it scrambles from one crisis to another - with jails set to run out of space again next year ...

LONDON, UK - Experts and former professionals in the criminal justice system have voiced concerns about the overuse of prison ...

A Westminster committee said lives are being increasingly put at risk by the Government’s historic failures to increase capacity.

What is really needed is a properly resourced probation service that can write reports of sufficient quality to ensure that ...

I joined the Prison Service to make a difference, but it was the behaviour of my male colleagues – not the prisoners – that ...

Marta Elena Vento, 27, was working at the Travelodge in Christchurch Road, Bournemouth, when she was killed in a brutal ...

A DRUGS-blighted prison has not been allowed to put CCTV on its perimeter wall — because it is Grade II listed. Planners will not permit it as the stone barrier, and the 206-year-old nick’s ...

Kyle Clifford has been given a whole-life sentence for the murder of his ex-girlfriend Louise Hunt, her sister Hannah and their mother Carol.

"As part of our commitment to bear down on drugs in prison, HMP Maidstone is due to have a new CCTV system installed which will cover all internal and external areas. "This is on top of the prison ...