A prison officer has been jailed for 15 months after having sex with an inmate in a cell. Linda De Sousa Abreu, 30, of Fulham, south-west London, was charged after a video of the activity was shared ...
Prisons minister James Timpson said Britain faced the “total breakdown of law and order” without the scheme, with the system “teetering on the edge of disaster” after being “run at 99 ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Dozens of prisons in England and Wales do not have fully working perimeter security, the head of the body ...
In the last year, four prisons in England have been issued urgent notifications from the Prisons Inspectorate, which calls on the Justice secretary to step in and remedy their declining state.
Britain also has a chronic shortage of probation officers to monitor criminals. The prison population of England and Wales peaked this year at 89,000, as the numbers have continued to rise by ...