The Ministry of Justice says prison governors have the discretion to allow inmates ... recorded but it appears there are currently 97 budgies, one canary and one parrot. The pets are allowed ...

Prisoners serving life sentences are keeping budgies and cockatiels for comfort in their cells, it has emerged. The inmates, many of whom are notoriously dangerous, bought the birds with their own ...

This morning's reports say the budgie is believed to have been smuggled into the prison by a female visitor who concealed the bird internally in her body.

were allowed to have them. HMP Full Sutton, East Yorks, said there were three budgies, five chickens and two cockatiels kept by prisoners. The chickens were probably kept outside cells. A Prison ...

The Irish Prison Service said today its continuing ... while prisoners were locked in their cells. A budgie, believed to have been smuggled into the jail by a female visitor who concealed the ...

He has previously asked for a pet budgie for his ... equivalents. "We have something we call the 'normality principle' in the Norwegian correctional service," prison governor Tom Eberhardt told ...