Every prison in England and Wales has an Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) – local volunteers who check on how the prison is run and publish their findings in an annual report. Dartmoor  The IMB ...

Lucy Letby will be sent to HMP Low Newton - a high security Category A female prison near Durham city, which sits adjacent to ...

Helen Spree, 61, was the chair of the independent monitoring board (IMB) at HMP Liverpool before her arrest for misconduct in public office and conspiring to convey prohibited articles into prison.

HMP Dartmoor’s future will be decided in the summer, when the government looks at its spending plans, a prison spokesperson told the BBC. The cost of the lease has more than doubled since the ...

“My 15-year-old son died. And yeah, my life just spiralled from then really.” We’re inside HMP Downview – one of 12 female prisons in England and Wales. “I feel like I needed help more ...

Over the past three years, claim costs against HMP Bullingdon totalled £579,488.29, with the highest amount in 2021/22 at £561,306.77. The figures from the HM Prison and Probation Service ...

A paedophile who was convicted of several child sex offences has died of sepsis while a prisoner at HMP Northumberland. Barry Rossiter, from Walker, had served just over two years of his 26 year ...

The former chairwoman of a prison monitoring board has appeared in court charged with having inappropriate relationships with serving prisoners and conspiring to smuggle drugs into HMP Liverpool.

HMP Dartmoor, which is owned by the Duchy of Cornwall, is leased to the Ministry of Justice for £1.5 million annually — and will be for the next 24 years. But the category-C prison ...