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

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

The HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) remains operating 'hand to mouth', while the service acknowledges it as ...

The minister for prisons James Timpson OBE has said early releases of inmates are necessary to as he visited Highpoint prison near Newmarket.

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 ...

MPs have warned the prison service is operating 'hand to mouth' as it scrambles from one crisis to another - with jails set to run out of space again next year ...

we also need tough sentences outside of prisons," Prisons Minister Lord Timpson told ITV News Political Correspondent Shehab Khan. Former CEO of shoe repair chain Timpson's, Lord Timpson was a ...

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

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

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 ...