Inside the new super-prison where inmates choose their cell block names
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 ...
I went inside England's newest prison and saw the 'warm truffle' and pool table
Justice chiefs relied on academic research on the best colours for the walls and floors, amid a violence and overcrowding ...
Call for review after first inmate death at new jail
Ashley Ferrie died at HMP Fosse Way, in Glen Parva, Leicestershire, on 13 February 2024. The 35-year-old, from Coventry, was ...
Violent criminals serving long sentences could be let out of prison early under Labour’s radical new reforms
VIOLENT criminals serving long sentences could be let out of prison early under Labour’s radical new reforms to the justice ...
Female prison officer, 22, told inmate lover she was with him for 'the thrill' - as she is jailed for illicit affair with convicted burglar
Niamh Lloyd, 22, met the career criminal, Lee Makin, while working as a prison officer at Forest Bank jail in Salford, ...
Staff at HMP Maidstone failed to raise alarm after inmate, 25, seen on cell floor hours before death confirmed
A prisoner with epilepsy was found dead in his cell despite staff seeing him lying prone on the floor during earlier checks.
Criminals handed longer sentences 'will be let out of prison early to make room in jails'
Shabana Mahmood's remarks open up the prospect of offenders handed long jail terms getting less jail time as part of a ...
Prison staff ‘falsified’ records on day Ashford knife attacker Sean Higgins took his own life in HMP Rochester
A prison has been ordered to improve after a damning report found officers did not complete roll checks on an “at risk” ...
Prison officer's loved up emails to inmate 'Big Lee' who gave her 'a thrill'
Lloyd, who also runs a beauty business, burnt documents in a bid to destroy evidence after being arrested. She was said to ...
She said she felt safer in prison, then she took her life
A vulnerable young woman who said she 'felt safer in prison than in the community' took her own life behind bars after ...
Prison officer's loved up emails to inmate 'Big Lee' who she was with 'for the thrill'
Lloyd, who also runs a beauty business, burnt documents in a bid to destroy evidence after being arrested. She was said to ...