All news on the topic: Prison Service

Ian Watkins, the ex-vocalist of Lostprophets and a convicted child sex offender, has passed away after being assaulted in prison

Three prison officers were hospitalised after being attacked by Hashem Abedi, brother of the Manchester Arena bomber, it’s been reported.

HMP Belmarsh houses Britain's most dangerous convicts so conditions inside are high security but that hasn't stopped hideous incidents of lethal violence erupting against staff and other inmates

Notorious gangland boss Daniel Gee ran the Grizedale estate in Liverpool with an iron fist before his wicked ways caught up with him and he was shot by a rival before being sentenced to prison

Damien Bendall is alleged to have used a claw hammer to attack a fellow Frankland Prison inmate - the same type of tool he used to murder his pregnant girlfriend and three children in 2021

Sleepover killer Damien Bendall has allegedly attacked a fellow prisoner with a claw hammer while in Frankland Prison, leaving the other man fighting for his life

Infamous prisoner Charles Bronson reportedly dished out two hooks and two uppercuts when he was attacked by murderer Robert Donaldson at a wing of HMP Woodhill

A lag claims she has had to go without support since February last year because the standard prison bras are far too small - and make it look like she has 'four boobs'

Prisoners and staff at HMP Lewes were taken to hospital after they suffered food poisoning - an investigation into the incident has been launched

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

Adam Swellings' minimum sentence of 17 years for killing sales manager Garry Newlove ends in August, meaning the convicted murderer can make an application to be released from prison

Deadly radioactive gas was detected in cells at HMP Dartmoor in 2020 but it took more than two years for almost two hundred inmates to be removed from the site

An estimated 17,000 children are affected by having a mum in prison every year and many will be separated on Mother’s Day this Sunday as experts call for more support

Roy Whiting - currently in jail for the abduction and murder or eight-year-old Sarah - is said to be seeking compensation for thousands of pounds after being attacked at HMP Wakefield

The new, brightly coloured uniforms are designed to be less frightening to kids at the Youth Custody Service, but officers are less than pleased at wearing their new "Teletubbie" style uniforms

Government contractor Mitie, which runs immigration detention centres, is hiring “use of force instructors” to force asylum-seekers on to planes bound for Rwanda

Prison whistle-blowers have claimed cuts to staff numbers and falling training standards have led to rising rates of inappropriate relationships between prison wardens and lags

Jordan McSweeney, who brutally murdered Zara Aleena in 2022 after a sickening nine minute attack, was allegedly caught having sex with a female prison officer at HMP Belmarsh

Jon Venables and Robert Thompson took toddler James Bulger from a shopping centre in Liverpool and brutally murdered him before trying to blame each other for their sick crimes

Judges have been told to delay sentencing hearings from next week in a desperate bid to keep down the prison population, while ministers consider letting criminals out early

Daniel Khalife allegedly fled HMP Wandsworth, in southwest London, which has seen "no real progress" in the past year, its Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) said

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

Connor Chapman, 23, was jailed for a minimum of 48 years last month for the murder of Elle Edwards, 26 - who he shot dead outside the Lighthouse pub in Merseyside on Christmas Eve