The Princess Royal was joined by the King when she hosted the annual Butler Trust Awards ceremony recognising criminal ...

Three people were taken to hospital by ambulance for further checks Three people were taken to hospital following the incident at HMP Swaleside Twenty-five prison officers reportedly fell ill ...

On 29 June, a man on an IPP sentence died at HMP Swaleside – a medium-security prison in Kent where 14 men died in the two years to August 2024. A fourth self-inflicted death was recorded on 29 ...

Police cells will be used to hold inmates as prisons face a capacity crisis with fewer than 800 spaces left across the UK.

His broadside followed the second prison riot in less than a week. Sixty inmates at Swaleside in Kent took control of a wing and lit fires on Thursday night before riot-trained officers were deployed ...

Another self-inflicted death took place at the high-security HMP Frankland in Durham the following month. On 29 June, a man ...

A convicted killer who brutally murdered his friend then dumped his dismembered body in a suitcase died in hospital after ...

An inmate has been convicted of carrying out a string of attacks with homemade plastic weapons on prison officers. Aklakar Rahman, 38, repeatedly attacked staff at HMS Swaleside in Kent and high ...