Disturbing levels of drugs use, self-harm and violence at HMP Styal have been laid bare in a new report. Inspectors found the prison had the highest rate of positive drugs tests among women's ...

Styal isn't what you expect a prison to look like. Inside the high fences and barbed wire are sixteen austere red-brick Victorian houses. Once an orphanage, they're now the prison's accommodation ...

Her career progression was impressive, achieving the rank of governor within just six years. Pegg's stint at HMP Styal women's prison in Cheshire was particularly noteworthy, with staff recalling how ...

had served 'numerous' short prison sentences at Styal since 2009, often for petty offences linked to drugs. In July, 2016, she was jailed for 20 weeks, and made threats to harm herself inside the ...

An inmate at a prison where inspectors found high levels of self harm had hurt herself 400 times in one year, a report said. HMP Styal near Wilmslow, Cheshire, was named the worst in the country ...

Staffing at the prison has now increased and we are investing in safety improvements so that women at HMP/YOI Styal are better supported." Inspectors found bosses at the prison were "ill-equipped ...

Mystery surrounds the death of a woman who was taken to hospital within 24 hours of being remanded to prison. Rebecca Parkinson was remanded to HMP Styal, in Wilmslow, Cheshire, on July 28 ...

Mystery surrounds the death of a woman who was taken to hospital within 24 hours of being remanded to prison. Rebecca Parkinson was remanded to HMP Styal, in Wilmslow, Cheshire, on July 28, 2022, ...