Paul Humpherson said the employment rate of prison leavers six months after release was "still nowhere near high enough" The chair of a prison board is calling for an improvement on employment for ...

Inadequate security at a men's prison is allowing the use of illicit drugs to lead to debt and violence, an inspection has found. In July and August His Majesty's Inspectorate of Prisons visited HMP ...

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The amount of recorded assaults on staff and other prisoners at the closest jails to Swindon has increased in the last five years. The latest government figures show how often violence is reported at ...

A prison has been criticised for "sustained overcrowding" and "unacceptably high" levels of violence. HMP Bullingdon, near Bicester in Oxfordshire, was also told by the Independent Monitoring Board ...