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 ...

A widower who pulled out a gun during a family 'stand-off' at a pub after his granddaughter made off with his late wife's ashes has been locked up. Martin Gordon said "don't take my wife" as his ...

We asked readers at HMP Hewell to send us a review of the prison – the good, the bad and the ugly. Here’s what you told us ...

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 ...

Every prison in England and Wales has an Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) – local volunteers who check on how the prison is run and publish their findings in an annual report Kirkham  The ...

Upward of 95% of incarcerated people will eventually leave prison, either on parole or because they’ve completed their sentence. And the older they are when released, the harder it can be to ...

University of California, Santa Barbara provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. President Joe Biden’s record of handling the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, is ...

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 ...

I spent more hours than I can count meeting with teenage clients in the dingy visiting room at the Oak Hill Youth Center, Washington’s youth prison. Infested with rats, roaches and even snakes ...

Watch: Militia leader Stewart Rhodes leaves prison after Trump issues 6 January pardons Former Proud Boys leader Henry "Enrique" Tarrio and Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes have been released ...