The first prisoners are now locked inside the new £400m state-of-the-art HMP Millsike, where almost 1,500 prison places will help ease the nation’s chronic overcrowding crisis. HMP Millsike ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. A HMP Berwyn inmate caught using an illicit mobile phone in his cell was speaking to his ill mother, a court heard. Mohammed Fazal ...

Prison officers are calling on the justice secretary to allow the use of electric stun guns in the UK’s most dangerous jails following an attack on guards at HMP Frankland last week. Mark ...

Hashem Abedi is accused of violently assaulting officers at HMP Frankland in Durham last weekend, using hot cooking oil and an improvised, or homemade, weapon. He was serving his sentence in a ...

Credit: PA Images The use of tasers in prisons will be trialled after the brother of the Manchester Arena bomber attacked guards with hot oil and home-made weapons at HMP Frankland, the Justice ...

Inmates can stock up on Chicago Town pizzas and Ben & Jerry's ice cream at Britain's first 'in-prison' Iceland branch. The supermarket opened at HMP Oakwood last month to help inmates adjust to the ...

A probe has been launched after an inmate was injured during an incident between prisoners at HMP Northumberland. A spokeswoman for the jail, in Acklington near Morpeth, said one man was taken to ...

Alan Blake was convicted for taking drugs and a phone into a prison on July 13, 2023 and he was sentenced to 27 months in prison before he was taken to HMP Altcourse and then onto HMP Berwyn.

One such unique initiative has been launched at England’s largest prison, HMP Oakwood, bringing new hope to inmates. You’ll be surprised to know that the UK’s first in-prison supermarket has opened at ...