The architect contract was first presented to the commissioners for consideration in December 2024, but they ultimately chose to table the decision then because the two new commissioners wanted more ...

How did the proposed prison make it to 2025 and what are the common questions that continue to be addressed in various ...

Faith Ringgold painted a vibrant mural at the Women’s House of Detention on Rikers Island. A few years later, it was ...

Figures from the Ministry of Justice show 228 assaults were recorded at Wakefield prison the year to September – up from 222 ...

Safety at Wakefield prison has reached a crisis point, new figures suggest. It comes as a workers' union has warned the increase of violence in prisons across England is "totally out of control".

HM Prison Wakefield has earned the chilling nickname 'Monster Mansion' due to the vile assortment of inmates caged in its cells. But the worst prisoner of all may come as a surprise. The notorious ...

February 12, 2025 • Experts analyzing the painting have several theories about why this unidentified woman has remained submerged for more than a century.

PALESTINE campaigners demonstrated outside a Yorkshire prison on Saturday in solidarity with an activist who took part in a raid on a Bradford weapons factory which supplies Israel. Francesca Nadin ...

Its shell roofs and timber-structure design are so unique that Historic ... And suppose you take the long street staircase down to the dark of Wakefield Street at the right time of night; it ...

Those who walked out of prison included Enrique Tarrio, the pardoned former chairman of the far-right Proud Boys group who was sentenced to 22 years, and Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes ...

A convicted murderer carried out a sickening attack on a paedophile in his own prison cell ... Bickerdike entered Morris’ cell at HMP Wakefield, on January 7, 2023, distracted him and then ...