The mother of a Northern Irish teenager has spoken of her despair as her daughter is “stuck in prison” due to a lack of care home places that would suit her complex needs. The 18-year-old from ...

An end-of-life care centre is needed at HMP The Verne, says the prison’s Independent Monitoring Board in its latest annual ...

A prisoner was left with a punctured lung when inmates armed with weapons clashed on a jail wing. Newcastle Crown Court heard ...

The first of around 390 prisoners eligible for a new early release scheme were freed from prisons in Scotland last week, in a fresh push to ease overcrowding in the nation’s jails. Emergency ...

A prison officer in YOI Wetherby has secured her place in the quarter-finals of the current series of the BBC One TV show ...

A 39-year-old prisoners has been sentenced to 17 years following a serious assault on a custodial officer in HMP Peterborough. Huntingdon Law Courts heard how he had been waiting with a bin full of ...

A 29-year-old female former officer working at HMP Five Wells, who sharing over 4,300 intimate texts with an inmate, there has been imprisoned for 12 months. She had pleaded guilty to misconduct in a ...

Former solicitor general and Conservative peer Lord Garnier (pictured) has said the situation at the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) is “beyond a joke” and leaves “a big hole in our criminal ...

I would like to share the plight of the protesters that are being sent to prison. I am currently on remand for an alleged ...