With the average cost of a prison place at £60,018, the annual bill for incarcerating foreign offenders has reached the total ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A general view of the Belmarsh prison, in London LONDON (Reuters) - Police cells will temporarily be used to hold prisoners in a ...

In the early 1990s, while working at the Maudsley Hospital in London, clinical and forensic psychologist Susan Young began to notice a troubling trend. Young people diagnosed with conditions such as ...

The UK’s prison overcrowding crisis has been fuelled by politicians‘ attempts to seem “tough on crime”, a major government review has found. The Independent Sentencing Review report is a stark break ...

Around 1,700 prisoners are being released from jail early today as Labour grapples with an overcrowding crisis left by the Tories. Inmates were spotted leaving HM Prison Brixton carrying bags as the ...

HMP Wandsworth labelled ‘inhumane’ after being found to be most overcrowded prison in UK - The chaos at the south-west London ...

A British prison officer could be headed for her own cell after recently fessing up to a month-long inappropriate relationship with an inmate, according to a report. Megan Breen, 23, made the shocking ...