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Prison officers are “lambs to the slaughter” going into UK jails that are actually run by veteran inmates, an ex-prison governor has warned.

The prison service risks facing severe penalties from the health and safety regulator after it exposed staff and inmates to dangerous levels of lethal radon gas.

The former Lostprophets singer and convicted child sexual abuser Ian Watkins has died following an attack in prison.

A pair of wealthy former Tory donors are set to profit from a multi-million Home Office contract to practice forcing asylum seekers onto planes heading to Rwanda

Poet Laureate Simon Armitage read to inmates at HMP East Sutton Park from his Paper Aeroplane poetry collection amid an aim to improve their literacy

Deadly radioactive gas was detected in cells at HMP Dartmoor in 2020 but it took more than two years for almost two hundred inmates to be removed from the site

An estimated 17,000 children are affected by having a mum in prison every year and many will be separated on Mother’s Day this Sunday as experts call for more support

Roy Whiting - currently in jail for the abduction and murder or eight-year-old Sarah - is said to be seeking compensation for thousands of pounds after being attacked at HMP Wakefield

Gangster 'Fat' Freddie Thompson who is serving life after leading the Kinahan cartel's gang war against the Hutch rivals is back in court in Ireland for allegedly attacking prison staff

The new, brightly coloured uniforms are designed to be less frightening to kids at the Youth Custody Service, but officers are less than pleased at wearing their new "Teletubbie" style uniforms

Government contractor Mitie, which runs immigration detention centres, is hiring “use of force instructors” to force asylum-seekers on to planes bound for Rwanda

Prison whistle-blowers have claimed cuts to staff numbers and falling training standards have led to rising rates of inappropriate relationships between prison wardens and lags

Jade Hearn, a 26-year-old Gatwick border official shared official intelligence with criminals, including advising them on how to move money, as she sent pictures of herself in uniform to four inmates

Bernadette Walker, a photography student, was last seen alive on July 18, 2020, when Scott Walker collected her from his parents' house in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire

Jordan McSweeney, who brutally murdered Zara Aleena in 2022 after a sickening nine minute attack, was allegedly caught having sex with a female prison officer at HMP Belmarsh

Lags get quite a selection when it comes to Christmas dinner but the Ministry of Justice have been quick to stress that the festive spread comes at no extra cost to the taxpayer

Jon Venables and Robert Thompson took toddler James Bulger from a shopping centre in Liverpool and brutally murdered him before trying to blame each other for their sick crimes

David Carrick was unmasked as one of Britain's most prolific sex offenders after he admitted to 24 counts of rape

David Stanners, nicknamed "Frog Eye", from Limerick, who was jailed for the brutal killing of rival gang boss Kieran Keane, has been found dead in his prison cell in Ireland

BBC Two will take us inside Northern Ireland’s Maghaberry Prison tonight - the UK’s 'most dangerous prison' - which houses some of the most serious offenders out there

Judges have been told to delay sentencing hearings from next week in a desperate bid to keep down the prison population, while ministers consider letting criminals out early

Daniel Khalife allegedly fled HMP Wandsworth, in southwest London, which has seen "no real progress" in the past year, its Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) said

Since the Conservatives took power in 2010, the number of guards in high security jails with more than three years’ experience has dropped from 4,148 to 2,993

Chronic understaffing by the Tories means that our prisons are at risk of failing in their primary purpose of keeping prisoners secure and the public safe