A “mass brawl” broke out at a young offender institution, HMP Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire last week, resulting in the hospitalisation of an inmate and two officers. The incident follows a stark warning [...]
England and Wales now have the highest imprisonment rate in western Europe. As the prison population has grown, so has the number of violent incidents behind bars, prompting calls for [...]
The prisons minister has called the state of the UK’s jails “unacceptable” following the revelation that a vast number of illegal mobile phones and drugs were seized from inmates last [...]
The Government has been urged to take bold action to reduce the prison population, following the release of damning reports on three prisons in south England. Inspectors criticised overcrowding, understaffing [...]
