After 50 years of service, the UK’s longest-serving prison officer is preparing for retirement. Steve Ley - whose joined HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) in 1975 as a 21-year-old - has ...

BRAZENLY unsheathing two large machetes with a serrated edge, two young men point deadly weapons at their target, who cowers behind a window. But this terrifying moment isn’t a scene of violence ...

The UK’s longest-serving prison officer has reflected on a total transformation to the service as he prepares to retire after 50 years. Steve Ley joined HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) in 1975 ...

Labour minister Jake Richards hit out at Nigel Farage's Nightingale prison proposal, saying the Reform UK leader has 'no real solutions' to the problems gripping the system ...

Chilling footage has been released of a teenager brandishing a huge machete before killing a 14-year-old boy in the street. Jermaine was unarmed when he fell victim to the killer on a busy street near ...

Eddie McGinty, 44, had been in and out of 14 juvenile and adult prisons since the age of 15, but his life was about to change thanks to a smuggled mobile phone Eddie McGinty, a dad of seven, is ...

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