Dr Emma French, co-author of Inside Wakefield Prison: Life Behind Bars in the Monster Mansion, said high-profile criminals like the former Lostprophets frontman Watkins, who was serving a 29-year jail ...

Construction has begun of a new prison in Leicestershire as part of Labour’s pledge to build 14,000 additional places in ...

As the manhunt continues for two more prisoners erroneously released by prison staff - a former inmate, who's just been ...

Daring escapes, the buzz of drug smuggling drones and guards being filmed having sex - welcome to HMP Wandsworth.

William Smith, 35, who goes by the name Billy, handed himself in three days after being released in error by staff at HMP ...