Police cells will temporarily be used to hold prisoners in a stop-gap measure to cope with overcrowding in jails, the British government said on Tuesday.

The HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) remains operating 'hand to mouth', while the service acknowledges it as ...

Due to overcrowded prisons in England and Wales, the UK government reinstates 'Operation Safeguard', allowing police cells to house inmates temporarily. The prison population has doubled over 30 years ...

Prisoners will be temporarily held in police cells to deal with prisons running out of space, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) ...

Police cells will temporarily be used to hold prisoners in a stop-gap measure to cope with overcrowding in jails, the United ...

The British government enacted 'Operation Safeguard' to manage prison overcrowding by holding inmates in police cells temporarily. This response follows a surge in the prison population in England and ...

Shabana Mahmood said January saw the highest average monthly growth of the prison population in almost two years as she ...

Peter Reynolds, 79, and his wife Barbie, 75, were detained as they travelled to their home in Bamyan province on February 1.

A 19-year-old, Nicholas Prosper, who murdered his mother, sister, and brother in Luton, UK, last year, has been sentenced ...

LONDON, UK - Experts and former professionals in the criminal justice system have voiced concerns about the overuse of prison ...

The UK government is looking to Estelle prison for ideas - for ways to reduce reoffending and to bring down prisoner numbers in our already overcrowded jails. There's a scheme here they'd like to ...

One in every 36 Albanian men living in England and Wales are behind bars, according to official data. Almost 1,100 Albanians ...