The Scottish Parliament has approved plans drawn up by the country’s Government for a third round of early releases to ease ...

Dodsworth, who remains at HMP Wakefield, pleaded not guilty to the charge of murder and denied possessing a makeshift knife ...

Scotland's justice secretary Angela Constance has conceded the early release of prisoners to tackle record overcrowding will ...

A Doncaster prison nurse who had an affair with an inmate and was later jailed after a huge drug smuggling operation at a city jail was uncovered is to reveal all in a new BBC podcast focusing on the ...

Loving tributes were paid to Derrion Adams, aged 29, after his sudden death at the Winson Green jail on Halloween ...

Three prisoners in HMP Wakefield have been charged with murder after a convicted child killer was found dead within the ...

A report from HM Inspectorate of Prisons published today, Monday, found 'serious organised crime gangs' are 'frequently using ...

Pub company Marston’s has opened what is being billed as the UK’s first commercially led hospitality academy inside a women’s ...

The Prison Service confirmed the man who died at Wakefield Prison was 33-year-old Kyle Bevan, who was jailed for life for murdering his partner’s two-year-old daughter, Lola James, in Haverfordwest, ...

A North East man assaulted a prison officer at HMP Deerbolt in Barnard Castle following a routine shower procedure. Twenty ...

The towering concrete walls of HMP Wakefield have been home to some of the UK's most notorious and violent criminals, from ...