Inmates at Lewes Prison are left in cells for up to 23 hours ... Inspectors noted a deterioration in progress at HMP Lewes since the full inspection in May last year. Charlie Taylor, chief ...

Eastbourne Hospital also stood down its major incident status. HMP Lewes is a men’s prison that holds about 700 inmates in a mix of one and two-man cells. It is a category B prison, which is the ...

A Prison Service spokesperson said: “We are working with the emergency services to deal with a suspected food poisoning incident at HMP Lewes.” Reports were made to ambulance services from the ...

HMP Lewes is a Category B men's prison with a capacity for 742 prisonersCredit: HMP Lewes Ambulances were called HMP Lewes, a Category B men’s prison in East Sussex, at around midday on Thursday.

Lewes Prison should no longer be used due to concerns over its condition, a watchdog has said. Inspectors who visited HMP Lewes earlier this year reported “squalid conditions” at the ...

The Prison Service said it was "working urgently ... "We have also invested in cutting-edge technology for HMP Lewes in order to keep out the drugs, phone and weapons that can fuel violence ...

February’s visit marked inspectors’ third to HMP Lewes – a Victorian resettlement prison with a high churn of remand prisoners – since a concerning inspection in 2022. This time ...

A Prison Service spokesperson said: 'We are working with the emergency services to deal with a suspected food-poisoning incident at HMP Lewes.' Police officers were assisting the ambulance ...

Three inmates and two members of staff have been taken to hospital following a suspected food poisoning incident at a UK prison. Emergency services were called to the scene at HMP Lewes ...