The banning of "legal highs" has led to an increase in incidents of violence, self-harm and suicide in prisons, according to ...

Two prison officers have been seriously injured in an “unprovoked” attack by an inmate at a young offenders’ institution. A ...

The litany of recent errors coincides with the ruling Labour Party battling its own economic constraints and record-setting ...

Almost four out of 10 inmates surveyed by His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons said it is easy to access drugs. Some prisons ...

Could Texas hold the answer to Britain's prisons crisis? Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood and prison minister James Timpson will visit the US state next month to learn about its points-based scheme ...

Latest numbers and trends - Some 10,737 foreign nationals were in prison at the end of September, down on the quarter but up year on year.

One of two inmates mistakenly released from a London prison has surrendered. Billy Smith returned to HMP Wandsworth on ...

Britain's justice minister said on Thursday that a spike in prisoners being wrongly released from jail was unacceptable, as ...

A search is continuing in the U.K. for one of two men who were mistakenly released from prison, part of a growing trend that ...

In the early 1990s, while working at the Maudsley Hospital in London, clinical and forensic psychologist Susan Young began to notice a troubling trend. Young people diagnosed with conditions such as ...