Government plans to add hundreds of spaces across multiple facilities and begin work on a new ‘super-prison’ within three ...

Irish prison cells are likely to be fitted with remote “signs of life” monitors in the near future following a sharp increase ...

Fritzl's lawyer Astrid Wagner has confirmed she has lodged a petition for the pensioner to be granted day visits outside ...

Two men were arrested after a drone was flown over a prison and contraband seized from a car, police said. Officers were ...

Records relating to the supervision of a severely mentally ill Spanish resident who was found dead in his cell in Cloverhill ...

A dental nurse has been jailed after smuggling a phone into a prison for use by an inmate. Julia Derbyshire was employed as a ...

A prison has been rocked by a year of chaos, with governors coming and going, a damning urgent warning from inspectors and ...

A British prison officer could be headed for her own cell after recently fessing up to a month-long inappropriate relationship with an inmate, according to a report. Megan Breen, 23, made the ...

A total of 88,238 people were in jail as of Monday, up 231 on the previous week, the Ministry of Justice said.