UK prisons could run out of space within a year and only half of new places will be built
The ambitious 2021 plans to introduce 20,000 new prison places by the mid-2020s are set to be delivered five years behind ...
UK prisons predicted to hit capacity by 2026 despite government's expansion plans, MPs warn
The HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) remains operating 'hand to mouth', while the service acknowledges it as ...
Courts 'gridlock' fears as judges to stop sending criminals to overcrowded prisons
Prisons are out of control with violence increasing and drug use rampant, Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood has been warned.
Inside new UK 'super-prison' that's a hotbed for female staff who sleep with inmates
Three female prison officers have been found to have had inappropriate relationships with inmates at the recently opened HMP ...
Woman, Who Raped and Abused Children with a Man She Met on a Dating App, Found Dead in Prison
Convicted child rapist Rebecca Holloway, who was serving a 12-year sentence, has been found dead at HM Prison Low Newton in ...
'I've been jailed in prison like Kyle Clifford – his disability won't protect him'
Kyle Clifford, 26, was given a whole-life term for the murders of his former partner, her sister and their mum and below a ...
Crossbow killer who murdered 3 women is sentenced to a whole-life order in UK prison
LONDON (AP) — A former British soldier who used a crossbow and a knife to murder three women at their family home north of ...
UK Woman Who Raped And Abused Children Found Dead In Prison
Rebecca Holloway, 31 was found dead at the HM Prison Low Newton in Durham, where she was serving a 12-and-a-half-year ...
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There are too many women in prison – here’s what needs to change
Amid the celebrations of International Women’s Day, I’ll be thinking of those 3,499 women in England and Wales who will be spending the day in prison. There will be colourful displays in ...
New sentencing guidelines will make the UK’s justice system more fair, not less – expert view
In echoes of last summer’s riots, the government is again being accused of enabling a “two-tier” justice system in the UK.