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

Prisons face ‘total gridlock’ in 2026 amid failure to increase capacity – MPs - A Westminster committee said lives are being ...

PRISONERS at both the Timehri and Mazaruni Prisons are reaping major success in poultry farming and tilapia production as part of the Guyana Prison Service’s (GPS) agricultural initiatives. According ...

A 22-year-old man is in police custody for attempting to smuggle prohibited articles into His Majesty’s Prison in Grand Turk last weekend. Authorities reported that the incident occurred last Sunday, ...

This question was at the heart of a special meeting held at the headquarters of the Israel Prison Service (IPS) in Ramla. Rabbi Yonatan Markovitch, Chief Rabbi of Kyiv and Rabbi of Ukraine's ...

Greenwich resident Mahamood Diallo Blin, 26 was sentenced to six years and 11 months in jail on Monday, 24 February at Snaresbrook Crown Court. The Met Police has warned that smuggling drugs into ...

During an interview on Observer AM, Junior Officer Royston Adams, who has served 19 years in the prison service and will be training the new recruits, disclosed that the facility is specifically ...

He added: ‘This is not simply a crisis of prison capacity. Our overcrowded and violent prisons are breeding grounds for crime, while probation services are overstretched and under-resourced ...

In December 2024, the National Audit Office reported that HM Prison and Probation Service no longer expects to deliver that capacity until 2031. As of September last year, only 6,500 of the places had ...

A Prison Service spokesperson said: 'All meals offered to prisoners meet nutritional guidelines and all prisoners and staff have been briefed on fire safety when cleaning equipment.' ...