Prison chiefs are trying to prevent violence behind bars by painting the walls soothing colours. England's newest jail, which ...

Prisons in England and Wales are over 99% capacity. With less than 800 spaces left in jails, the government recently ...

The government has outlined a plan to deliver 14,000 more prison places in England and Wales by 2031, which included building ...

An inmate’s reveal about life in prison has gone viral — and some TikTokkers are seemingly into it. In the video, a user ...

PRISONERS will be held in police cells as Britain’s jails are almost out of space again. The country’s prisons are once again ...

The government says 200 police cells will be freed up by the measures ... The government has outlined a plan to deliver 14,000 more prison places in England and Wales by 2031, which included ...

Police cells will be used again ... re-enacted as the number of prisoners in England and Wales reached a six-month high. Ministry of Justice"> The prison population stood at 87,556 as of Monday ...

"Urgent" concerns have been raised about "unacceptably high" levels of self-harm at a women's prison. The thousands of ...

Police cells will temporarily be used to hold prisoners in a stop-gap measure to cope with overcrowding in jails, the British ...

Police cells will be used again to hold prisoners as jails are running at “close to critical capacity” of more than 99%, the Justice Secretary has said. The contingency plan called Operation Safeguard ...

The measure comes despite thousands of offenders being released early in September, under a scheme which was designed to ...

The British government enacted 'Operation Safeguard' to manage prison overcrowding by holding inmates in police cells temporarily. This response follows a surge in the prison population in England and ...