MPs have warned the prison service is operating 'hand to mouth' as it scrambles from one crisis to another - with jails set ...

A WIRRAL man who was part of gang who tried to smuggle drugs worth an estimated £270,000 into Jersey has appeared in court in Liverpool.

With prison population levels as well as prisoner-on-staff assault rates continuing to rise, prisons across the UK have had ...

Figures obtained by Accident Claims found that the prison service has had to pay out over £80k to prison staff who have ... According to figures gathered by the HM Prison and Probation Service, 1628 ...

Rebecca Holloway, 31, was found dead at HM Prison Low Newton in Durham, England, the Prison Service confirmed to local outlet Grimsby Live. Her death date was listed as Feb. 13 on the Prisons and ...

A drunk reveller who punched a taxi driver to the ground in a "disgraceful" and unprovoked attack has been ordered to pay ...

A prison officer who was jailed after performing oral sex on an inmate and calling herself his "queen" is reportedly now engaged to a woman who says she is "standing by her". Katie Evans ...

A prisoner climbed onto the roof of an outbuilding at HMP Berwyn and stayed there for nine hours, hurling pieces of the roof ...

Prison Officers Association (POA) general secretary Steve Gillan led a searing attack on government failure to deal with a “prison service at crisis point ... Prison officers overwhelmingly rejected a ...

SA's Public Service Association (PSA ... the department to confirm whether there were two other assaults at the prison last week. Mr White said violent attacks had occurred on Wednesday, Thursday ...

Kentucky officials directed the Henderson County jail to pay corrections officers and employees more than $215,000 in back ...