POLICE are investigating the death of a prisoner at HMP Wakefield on Saturday morning. Prison staff called West Yorkshire Police around 9.39am to reports of an assault on a prisoner. Emergency services attended and the man was pronounced dead at the scene a short time later.

Security guards ‘didn’t bat an eyelid’ when the pair strolled out of the gates at HMP Downview in Surrey, a source said.

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 admission in a Welsh court, becoming the latest of more ...

Keir Starmer has made a flurry of ministerial appointments since becoming UK prime minister last week but one name has stood out: new prisons minister James Timpson. Timpson, chief executive of the key-cutting and shoe-repair chain of the same name, is not ...