A high tech drone which operates remotely could be used to protect high-security prisons said to have lost control of their ...

Plans to build a third prison near a Lancashire village could be decided in the High Court after campaigners launched a legal bid to block the project. People in Ulnes Walton, near Leyland, already ...

FIGHTS broke out between ... according to the report, and prison bosses were forced to send weekly loads of dirty washing more than 150 miles away to HMP Ranby, in Nottinghamshire.

A guard at HMP Wandsworth who was filmed having sex with an inmate inside a prison cell has been jailed ... claims she was only trying to leave the UK to avoid the media storm over the video ...

Fights broke out among ... Cell mates came to blows at HMP Chelmsford, Essex, over a "perceived lack of hygiene" as the issue raged on for three months in 2024. Prison leaders had to send laundry ...

FIGHTS broke out between ... according to the report, and prison bosses were forced to send weekly loads of dirty washing more than 150 miles away to HMP Ranby, in Nottinghamshire.

Claims experienced staff going off sick, "poorly trained" officers struggling to adapt to prison life and claims senior ...

An ordinary teenager from the suburbs of London spun fantasies in his mind that led to him spying for Iran and then pitching ...

A gangster whose prison nurse lover assisted in fuelling a drug empire from behind bars has passed away. Joseph Whittingham, who was embroiled in a drugs scandal at HMP Lindholme in Doncaster ...

The strain on not just HMP Liverpool, but the whole prison network as a whole, has never been greater. The number of prisoners in the UK’s creaking ... “The POA will always fight for the ...

THE Prison Officers Association (POA) has called on Scottish Labour MPs and party leader Anas Sarwar to back its call for a UK-wide right to strike.

This is the nearest equivalent the UK has to the ‘supermax’ or maximum security prison category in the US. Category A includes some of Britain’s most notorious prisons, such as HMP Belmarsh, in London ...