The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has cut almost £700m from its budget for building new prisons and renovating old ones to pay ...

Prison officers in young offender institutions (YOIs) will start using synthetic pepper spray from this summer in a bid to combat rising violence from inmates, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ ...

Prison officers in young offender institutions will start using pepper spray in a bid to combat soaring violence levels from ...

Specialist prison officers were deployed to deal with a disturbance at a prison in Nottinghamshire. Officers from the ...

The first prisoners have arrived at a new jail in East Yorkshire. HMP Millsike has been built on land next to the existing ...

There are just 961 cells available, according to government statistics. There are also fewer prison places available than ...

The Prison Officers' Association will demand staff are given stun guns in the most dangerous jails during a meeting with the ...

The UK Ministry of Justice is using one algorithm to predict people’s risk of reoffending and another to predict who will ...

The Ministry of Justice says the 'crisis' of overcrowded prisons was being addressed in a bid to reduce compensation claims ...

It follows terrorist Hashem Abedi’s assault on officers at HMP Frankland using two homemade knives and hot oil. He has been ...