A new £400 million super-prison has opened where inmates will be able to choose the names of their cell blocks and get a say ...

Justice chiefs relied on academic research on the best colours for the walls and floors, amid a violence and overcrowding ...

VIOLENT criminals serving long sentences could be let out of prison early under Labour’s radical new reforms to the justice ...

Niamh Lloyd, 22, met the career criminal, Lee Makin, while working as a prison officer at Forest Bank jail in Salford, ...

The underworld war broke out after one of Richardson’s associates reportedly stole a six figure sum of drugs from a ...

Breaking their silence for the first the crime clan also appeared to goad their gangland rivals boasting that none of them ...

David Taylor caused a three-and-a-half-hour stand off as police closed High Northgate, Darlington, when he set fire to his ...

A prisoner at HMP Maidstone was found dead in his cell despite staff having observed him lying on the floor during checks ...

The Mirror's Sophie Huskisson recounts her visit to HMP Millsike, a new 1,500-place jail in Yorkshire with a focus on ...

The justice secretary said the category C prison set "the standard for the jails of the future".

Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood said “we simply cannot build our way out of the prisons capacity crisis” as she opened a ...

Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood opened Category C prison HMP Millsike in Yorkshire on Thursday. Ms Mahmood admitted the ...