The Government is recruiting 82 specialist staff at prisons across England and Wales to process the deportation of foreign ...

The crisis followed the last Conservative Government's failure to fulfil its promise to build up to 20,000 more prisons places before leaving office ...

Many prisoner are living in ‘inhumane conditions’ and the government must act now to avert disaster, the Public Accounts Committee has warned ...

The ambitious 2021 plans to introduce 20,000 new prison places by the mid-2020s are set to be delivered five years behind ...

Exclusive: The total number of total number of self-inflicted deaths of those trapped under abolished IPP jail terms to 94, ...

A Westminster committee said lives are being increasingly put at risk by the Government’s historic failures to increase capacity.

A rural prison is to increase its capacity by more than 50% to become "the UK's largest" jail, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has said. Three four-storey houseblocks will be built at HMP Highpoint in ...

Three Seminoles finished in double figures. Leading the way was Makayla Timpson, with 20 points. Carla Viegas added 15 and Sydney Bowles scored 14. Timpson was running the ship for the Seminoles.

Lord James Timpson, Minister for Prisons, Probation and Reducing Reoffending, said: “It cannot be right for British taxpayers ...

A £5 million investment will see specialist frontline staff sent to 80 jails in a bid to ease the current capacity crisis.

Four men have been arrested after a drone, drugs and contraband were recovered during a police operation around Strangeways Prison. The discovery was made after officers were alerted to the ...