WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT. As concerns grow over a spate of fatal attacks behind bars, prison doctor Dr Shahed Yousaf ...

Emergency measures have been introduced by the Justice Secretary in order to prevent the prisons system from reaching full capacity by November. Shabana Mahmood introduced plans on Wednesday to ...

Several prisoners are mistakenly released from British prisons each week, a minister said on Thursday, revealing the scale of a problem that came to light with the wrongful release of a migrant sex ...

The UK government's plan to scrap most short-term prison sentences has come into effect - and it makes a lot more sense than ...

People sentenced for similar offences are more likely to offend after a short prison sentence than if they had been given a community sanction.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. LONDON (AP) — British police were undertaking two more searches Wednesday, following the news that two prisoners had been ...

Political prisoner T. Hoxha is dying. She is on her 18th day of hunger strike in HMP Peterborough in protest of the prison’s politically-targeted abuses. One of the Filton 24 detained indefinitely ...

ENGLAND, UK — Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins died in a United Kingdom prison Saturday, according to West Yorkshire Police. He was 48. Police arrested two men, one 25 and the other 43, on suspicion of ...

Kaine Jones, of Redditch prison HMP Hewell, jailed for heading up a 'sophisticated' drone operation ...