Safety at Hewell prison has reached a crisis point, new figures suggest. It comes as a workers' union has warned the increase of violence in prisons across England is "totally out of control". Figures ...

In November 2023, prison officer Martin Mills admitted sneaking drugs inside boxes of cereal into HMP Hewell in Worcestershire - working as part of a conspiracy alongside at least eight other people.

But last year prison officials ordered 381 pieces of outsize clothing for inmates ranging from 2XL up to 7XL, up from 256 in 2023. A report into HMP Hewell, near Redditch, Worcs, found it was not ...

It wasn’t until she was signing the lease agreement that someone said, “Did you know this is an old prison?” Indeed, the development, now called Liberty, had a former life as the Lorton ...

Russia handed prison sentences on Friday to three lawyers who had defended opposition leader Alexei Navalny until his death in a Russian prison last year, capping a protracted legal saga that has ...

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele offers to house deportees of any nationality from the U.S., including incarcerated American citizens, in the country’s maximum-security prison. Photo ...

A man who served time in prison after struggling with substance abuse has shared six habits he still uses from when he was behind bars. Derrick Moore from Alaska in the US, is a motivational ...

My understanding of life in prison comes purely from the big screen — movies like The Shawshank Redemption or the Netflix series Orange is the New Black. I am very thankful that this is the ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 21 (Reuters) - Hundreds of Donald Trump supporters who had been serving prison sentences for participating in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol were freed on Tuesday ...

One of the world’s biggest prisons, with a 40,000 capacity (equivalent to almost half the UK’s current prison population), CECOT was built two years ago. It now houses many thousands of the ...

Some things are better off from a distance; the closer you get to them, the scarier they become. One of those things is prison. We love watching documentaries about them, and we dig shows that revolve ...