Justice chiefs relied on academic research on the best colours for the walls and floors, amid a violence and overcrowding ...

Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood backs sentencing tsar David Gauke's plan for shorter sentences to solve jail overcrowding ...

A man who was jailed for a life-threatening firearms offence has escaped from prison. Brian Odour, 34, failed to return to ...

The Ministry of Employment, in collaboration with the Ministry of Environment, has launched the Swift Nestboxes Project, a wood workshop initiative at HMP Windmill Hill aimed at producing low-cost, ...

Liam Matthews and his gang hunted Lewis Bell "like prey" and stabbed him in the back. The attack took place just after ...

A Bishop Auckland woman who stabbed her own dad to death with knives, a poker and a walking stick died from heart disease in prison.

A corrupt prison officer from Wigan, who formed a relationship with an inmate at HMP Forest Bank, has been jailed.

An air ambulance was called to a Staffordshire prison after an inmate was stabbed. The incident took place at Swinfen Hall ...

Police have appealed for help after a man who was jailed for a life-threatening firearms offence absconded from prison. Brian ...

The killer, who was tormented by acute psychosis due to cannabis use, scrawled "Bin Laden did this" in felt tip pen on the living room wall before setting his house on fire in 2001. Pyle, who was ...

Another inmate from the same Aylesbury Vale prison is wanted on recall to the institution. Thames Valley Police has revealed ...

A Norwich prison officer suffered a fractured cheekbone in an attack by a teenage inmate over the Christmas period.