Jayden O'Brien, 18, was serving a sentence at HMP Wetherby for manslaughter when he attacked a number of officers while on a wing reserved for the most vulnerable and volatile prisoners. Leeds Crown ...

A TEENAGE inmate who assaulted two female prison officers has been handed a community order. Jayden Wood, of HMP Styal Prison, Wilmslow, pleaded guilty to two separate assaults at Leeds District ...

Prison officers in three young offender institutions (YOIs) will start using synthetic pepper spray from this summer in a bid to combat ...

Some 202 prison officers injured by inmates have been handed Ministry of Justice payouts since 2019/20 – totalling £10.3 ...

Pava spray will be made available ‘in limited circumstances’ to a select number of staff at three centres holding under-18s.

If rolled out in full, it would impact HMP Deerbolt near Barnard Castle and Low Newton Prison, near Durham. HMYOI Wetherby. Pava spray, which is an incapacitant, will be made available “in limited ...