The creation of thousands of new prison spaces in England and Wales has been held up by environmental regulations, as ...

A multibillion-pound prison building programme begun under the last Conservative government was intended to fix the crisis that has engulfed England ... Jacob King/PA A cell inside Fosse Way ...

But inadequate funding to address a backlog of prison maintenance is seeing jail cells taken out of service ... of outstanding maintenance jobs in England and Wales prisons doubled from £0.9bn ...

IT was once the world’s most famous prison – now Dartmoor is an empty shell. Murderers, serial killers, gangsters, spies – ...

Prison officials have warned that under-investment means cells are falling out of use almost as quickly as new ones were built. Some 4,151 cells have been indefinitely closed in England and Wales ...

Fears of new overcrowding crisis as Labour continues letting offenders out after serving less than half their term ...

A prison officer who was filmed having sex with an inmate in his cell has been sentenced to 15 months in prison. Footage of Linda De Sousa Abreu and prisoner Linton Weirich at HMP Wandsworth in ...

At Manchester Prison in northern England, inmates were burning holes into windows to receive drone deliveries ... from ...