Both Home Secretary Yvette Cooper and Prisons Minister James Timpson have said they are urgently considering tightening rules on safety within prisons following an incident at HMP Belmarsh where a ...

More painful than giving birth.” That is how women in prison whose babies had been taken away from them describe the trauma, ...

A 38-year-old man has been given a life sentence for murder and been told he must spend a minimum of 35 years in prison after ...

A 49-year-old governor of HMP Swaleside has appeared at Medway Magistrates Court charged with attacking and attempting to ...

Prisoners could be freed after serving just one-third of their jail terms under radical reforms proposed in a ...