Justin Isiah Hawkins and Emmanuel Lee Baldwin, both 35, were convicted of altering a check worth nearly $200,000 intended for ...

Sarah Mallender, who is currently the director at Heathrow Immigration Removal Centre, has been appointed as director and ...

A newly-published report from independent spending watchdog the National Audit Office (NAO) states that the prison and health services are facing substantial, increasing and rapidly changing ...

Prison officers are failing to put some of Britain’s most dangerous inmates into solitary confinement over fears of challenges by human rights lawyers.

Public Accounts Committee report into the efficiency and resilience of the probation service says it is teetering on the ...

How is the state managing the threat posed by subversive extremists in prison? Not at all well, according to Jonathan Hall KC, who has produced a measured but damning report on the operation of HM ...

Drone incursions in British prisons have been described as a threat to national security and are fuelling a rise in substance ...

Prison governors have reported not having enough money to fix broken security equipment, the watchdog said, with X-ray scanners not being repaired for many months and window security improvements ...

The governor of HMP Lindholme in Doncaster has been dismissed, HM Prison Service confirmed. The service did not say why Rob Kellett was no longer in post but a spokesperson said: "Where staff fall ...

Running water has returned to Sheridan Federal Correctional Institution after adults in custody spent much of the weekend without it. Scott Taylor, a spokesperson for the Bureau of Prisons, the ...

December means Christmas in the doggy day room at Logan Correctional Center, Illinois’ largest state prison for women. On a recent visit, there were dogs dressed in holiday sweaters or reindeer ...

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