Around 60 prison staff, prisoners and former inmates of HMP Dartmoor have launched legal action over radon levels. Solicitor Mladen Kesar said he was acting on behalf of more than 500 claimants in ...

Mahad Elmi is being hunted by police after setting up a drug dealing operation using a teenager to sell crack and heroin ...

A violent criminal who burgled a butcher's shop after walking out of an open prison has been jailed for a year. Michael ...

PRISONS are usually deathly quiet at night. Despite housing the country’s most violent men, inmates agree on one thing – the ...

Prisoners such as crime boss Mark Richardson and Limbs in the Loch murderer William Beggs are housed at HMP Edinburgh and ...

An unannounced inspection at HMP Doncaster identified a number of problems – including drugs, overcrowding, and a lack of ...

A prison director has told an inquest he observed an "extraordinary" culture of "staff not caring" at a jail where an inmate ...

Shannon Day, 24, of Sydenham, southeast London, appeared at Croydon Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday with alleged accomplices ...

On Christmas Day, people will enjoy tucking into their festive dinners and in prison, it will be no different. For inmates ...

Two prison officers were seen playing football with a toilet roll hours before an inmate died in a jail in Nottinghamshire.

An independent investigation by the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman into the death of James Trewick at HMP Northumberland concluded that deficiencies in his clinical care meant standards fell below ...