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

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Able to hold 40,000 inmates – nearly half the entire UK prison population – the facility is made up of eight sprawling pavilions. Woman who fled Australia after snatching wombat reveals why ...

Prison are close to running out of room because politicians have spent decades ... independent review set up by the government after the UK’s prison system came close to collapsing last summer.

A UK prison officer has been jailed for 12 months after she admitted to having an "inappropriate" relationship with an inmate. Toni Cole, who worked at HMP Five Wells in Wellingborough ...

The UK’s prison overcrowding crisis has been fuelled by politicians‘ attempts to seem “tough on crime”, a major government review has found. The Independent Sentencing Review report is a ...

A Burnley-based expert in video wall displays - including control room installations - is improving the surveillance at a UK prison. The prison, which cannot be named for security reasons ...

B-Wing at HMP Liverpool, also known as Walton Prison (Picture: Colin McPherson/Corbis via Getty Images) Prison are close to running out of room because ... after the UK’s prison system came ...

The UK’s prison overcrowding crisis has been fuelled by politicians‘ attempts to seem “tough on crime”, a major government review has found. David Gauke, the former Conservative lord chancellor ...