Dozens of assaults on staff were recorded at Lewes prison in the year to June, new figures show. Meanwhile the number of prisoner assaults on staff in prisons across England and Wales reached a record ...

The crisis in Britain's prisons comes from a decade of Tory austerity leaving them at "breaking point", a former prison officer turned MP has claimed. Sally Jameson, who worked for five years at HMP & ...

We made our way gently downhill to Lychpole Farm, where we admired the colourful old farm carts and wagons lined up in a shed. After a short stretch through the valley, we began the gentle ascent of ...

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A man who was mistakenly released from prison on the day he was sentenced to jail has handed himself back in after three days, police have said. Surrey Police, which launched a manhunt on Wednesday, ...

A RETURNED soldier sentenced to prison for drug trafficking has escaped jail time because he had served in the war in Afghanistan. David Mark Nicholas, 24, was sentenced this week in the District ...