Ministers have been forced to trigger an emergency measure to house prisoners in police cells as jails run out of space. Justice secretary Shabana Mahmood has enacted Operation Safeguard, which allows ...

Prisoners will be temporarily held in police cells to deal with prisons running out of space, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) ...

The government has triggered an emergency measure to use police cells to hold prisoners, as jails are close to being full ...

As notorious serial killer ‘Hannibal the Cannibal’ goes on hunger strike after prison guards confiscate his Playstation and ...

Shabana Mahmood said January saw the highest average monthly growth of the prison population in almost two years as she re-enacted the move.

THE evil mother of Tony Hudgell, the tot abused so badly his legs were amputated, has been assaulted in her cell and “bullied ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Police cells will temporarily be used to hold prisoners in a stop-gap measure to cope with overcrowding in jails, the British government said on Tuesday.

Due to overcrowded prisons in England and Wales, the UK government reinstates 'Operation Safeguard', allowing police cells to house inmates temporarily. The prison population has doubled over 30 years ...

Britain’s most dangerous prisoner, Robert Maudsley, has gone on a hunger strike inside his isolated cell at the UK’s ...

Locked in a glass cage under Wakefield Prison, quadruple killer Robert Maudsley has been condemned as Britain’s most ...

Hannibal the Cannibal' Robert Maudsley, 71, has been in solitary confinement in a glass cell for 46 years after he killed ...