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Iceland has begun its new vocational training at the privately-owned HMP Oakwood in Featherstone where prisoners get the chance to 'gain work experience' and 'adjust to the outside world'.

More than £235,000 has been paid out in compensation for prisoner injury claims at HMP Liverpool in recent years. New data obtained through a freedom of information (FOI) request has revealed the ...

Prisoners at HMP Lewes were paid almost £130,000 in compensation for injuries sustained in jail in the last five years. New data obtained by Legal Expert, has revealed that between 2020 and 2024 ...

Calum Inglis, 34, was serving a short sentence in HMP Addiewell when he tested positive for the virus on October 12 2021. Inglis, who was asthmatic and unvaccinated, died on October 24 after his ...

The monthly rate for assaults on staff and other inmates at HMP Frankland, in County Durham, hit 183.8 per 1,000 prisoners – the highest rate since at least 2016, and up from 169.5 last year.

Alan Blake was convicted for taking drugs and a phone into a prison on July 13, 2023 and he was sentenced to 27 months in prison before he was taken to HMP Altcourse and then onto HMP Berwyn.

The first prisoners are now locked inside the new £400m state-of-the-art HMP Millsike, where almost 1,500 prison places will help ease the nation’s chronic overcrowding crisis. HMP Millsike ...

The 41-year-old was found dead at HMP Frankland, near Durham, on Monday. A Prison Service spokesperson said: “Gareth Dack died on April 21 2025 at HMP Frankland. As with all deaths in custody ...