Safety at Wealstun prison has reached a crisis point, new figures suggest. It comes as a workers' union has warned the ...

The jail overcrowding crisis is to blame for an ongoing rooftop protest, the Prison Officers' Association has said. Twenty inmates occupied the roof at Wealstun prison near Wetherby, West ...

This is the terrifying moment a guard was attacked by a prisoner in Yorkshire. HMP Wealstun prison guard Stuart Wilson, from South Kirkby in Wakefield, was on a routine shift on January 3 2023 when he ...

New HM Prison and Probation Service figures show there were 411 full-time equivalent staff members in post at Wealstun prison as of December. It was down from 432 the year before. Meanwhile ...