After 50 years of service, the UK’s longest-serving prison officer is preparing for retirement. Steve Ley - whose joined HM ...

Working on a site in the remote Yorkshire countryside, the task of building the UK’s first all-electric prison was always going to have its challenges for ...

Pia Sinha worked in prisons for 24 years before being appointed CEO of the charity Prison Reform Trust and she describes herself as a “ridiculously optimistic” person, who believes the prisons ...

HMP Frankland has been home to some of the UK's most notorious criminals - including the likes of Peter Sutcliffe, Ian ...

that’s all changed.” Steve explained that cells have showers now and some even have televisions and phones, making prisoners’ experiences more “humanising”. He said giving them the ...

An "overcrowded" prison where violence is on the rise needs to improve, a watchdog has said. The Independent Monitoring Board's (IMB) latest report said HMP Durham had seen assaults on staff and ...

“The Scottish Government will continue to pursue the lifting of the Scottish Prison Service’s corporate Crown immunity under reserved health and safety law with the UK Government. “All of ...

The repatriation plan sees the UK pay Albania an expected ... “Yeah, yeah, all good”. Sentencing him to seven years in prison, Old Bailey Judge Bernard Richmond told him: “You targeted ...

A British bar manager who was imprisoned and tortured for 12 days for allegedly "breaking in" to Georgia’s Parliament during anti-government protests last year has been prevented from leaving ...