Andy Burnham, the Mayor of Greater Manchester, is reportedly seeking to close HMP Manchester, better known as Strangeways, ...

Two prisoners who ran a drug supply network from their cells using smuggled-in mobile phones have each been sentenced to an extra 10 years in jail. The men, aged 33 and 37, were the subject of a ...

An employment tribunal has found that a Black former prison officer suffered racist abuse from colleagues at Swaleside high-security prison in Kent. Uzo Mbonu, 53, who was born in Nigeria, says he ...

One of the houseblocks in this prison has had no heating for weeks and weeks. Our electricity trips out constantly, there are ...

A 27-year-old policewoman has been sentenced to time in prison for abusing her position at Greater Manchester police to pass information on to two men, one of whom was a prisoner at HMP Forest ...

There were 64 deaths in Scottish prisons in 2024, marking a 60 per cent increase on the previous year’s figure and making ...

Freed prisoners who commit further lower-level offences such as shoplifting should not be automatically recalled to prison, ...

More than 700 Nigerians were recruited to work in UK prisons last year, the Government has revealed. They accounted for 29 per cent of job applicants and 12 per cent of staff hired at ...

March, the USA deported 238 alleged Venezuelan migrants to a super-max mega-jail in El Salvador, claiming they were members of two Venezuelan gangs, Tren de Aragua and ...

The UK’s newest prison opened for business last month – buying the Government a bit of breathing space as it tackles a capacity crisis at jails across England and Wales. The first prisoners ...

Rap music has always been more than just a genre. It has long been a form of survival and self-expression, and its ...

It was like a burnt matchbox in the sky It was black and long, and burnt in the sky You saw it through flowering stumps of ...