Andy Burnham, the Mayor of Greater Manchester, is reportedly seeking to close HMP Manchester, better known as Strangeways, ...

Two prisoners who ran a drug supply network from their cells using smuggled-in mobile phones have each been sentenced to an extra 10 years in jail. The men, aged 33 and 37, were the subject of a ...

An employment tribunal has found that a Black former prison officer suffered racist abuse from colleagues at Swaleside high-security prison in Kent. Uzo Mbonu, 53, who was born in Nigeria, says he ...

The Supreme Court’s ruling that the term “woman” refers to biological sex has led to pressure on the Scottish Government over its policy of housing some biologically-male transgender prisoners in ...

Two prominent lawyers have told the Westminster Commission on Joint Enterprise that the doctrine is being used drag people who were on the periphery of incidents into prosecutions. The Commission, set ...

When Michael O’Shaughnessy, an illustrator and senior lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University, first began using scents with art students, asking them “to develop projects and concepts” based on ...

One of the houseblocks in this prison has had no heating for weeks and weeks. Our electricity trips out constantly, there are ...

A 27-year-old policewoman has been sentenced to time in prison for abusing her position at Greater Manchester police to pass information on to two men, one of whom was a prisoner at HMP Forest ...

There were 64 deaths in Scottish prisons in 2024, marking a 60 per cent increase on the previous year’s figure and making ...

Freed prisoners who commit further lower-level offences such as shoplifting should not be automatically recalled to prison, ...

More than 700 Nigerians were recruited to work in UK prisons last year, the Government has revealed. They accounted for 29 per cent of job applicants and 12 per cent of staff hired at ...