All news on the topic: HM Prison Service

Farrah Jones was jailed for four years after being caught smuggling in drugs and mobile phones to HMP Forest Bank where she worked as a custody officer transporting inmates

Britain's Forgotten Prisoners, made by award-winning filmmaker Martin Read, delves into the lives of prisoners who ended up with a lifelong period of recall and served longer sentences than they should have.

Aleesha Bates, 29, and Jodie Wilkes, 27, both had affairs with the lag while they worked at HMP Buckley Hall in Rochdale, with both pleading guilty to misconduct in a public office

HMP Frankland, dubbed 'Monster Mansion', opens its gates to cameras on Channel 5 tonight to give an insight into life behind bars for some of the UK's most dangerous criminals

Since the Conservatives took power in 2010, the number of guards in high security jails with more than three years’ experience has dropped from 4,148 to 2,993

Bosses want 'big numbers' of former convicts working inside because they have 'lived experience' - it is understood they can apply to work in rehabilitation roles

Residents living near the new prison for women say they can hear the inmates swearing and threatening to kill one another

The staggering admission by the Ministry of Justice was included by mistake in an £8million contract that was published on a Government procurement website

Andy Malkinson was falsely imprisoned for 17 years and fell into an 'unspeakable' depression. If he had followed a prison officer's advice and confessed to the crime, he could have been out after 7 - but he refused to give in.

Andrew Barlow was known as the “Coronation Street rapist” because his victims lived in terraced houses in the north of England in the 1980s

Feared serial killer Robert Mawdsley has now set the record for the longest time in solitary confinement. "The Brain Eater's" cell in HMP Wakefield is known to have cockroaches and flies