Understaffing and overcrowding in prisons are causing unsafe conditions, low retention rates, and a higher suicide rate among ...

McCourt, 59, was reported as missing from HMP Castle Huntly in Dundee, Scotland’s only open prison, at around 5:30pm last ...

A recent inspection report into HMP Parc in Bridgend, South Wales, found that the "quality and quantity" of the food was ...

Freedom of information data showed the most money was paid out to injuries caused by bunk beds, food contamination, animal ...

Highland Park parade shooter Robert Crimo III was transferred to Stateville Correctional Center in Crest Hill, Illinois after ...

Meanwhile, it has been announced just weeks after officers at HMP Frankland were "doused in hot oil" and "stabbed" with ...

A convicted murderer who went missing from an open prison has been traced. Raymond McCourt, 59, was reported missing at ...

In the wake of 23-year-old Jamaican national Chinlee Robinson's death at His Majesty's Prison (HMP) in January this year, the Superintendent of Prisons, Colonel ...

There were 10,605 assaults on staff last year, up 15 per cent on the year before, setting a new grim record, as attacks on ...

An unnamed prison officer was filmed on a mobile phone for a TikTok video apparently twerking at the request of an inmate at ...

A prisoner from HMP Thorn Cross ‘walked out’ of the prison and was at large for more than a month before he was finally caught.

Some 10,605 assaults on staff in male and female jails were recorded in the period up to December 2024, at a rate of 122 per ...