Prisons

Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice Shabana Mahmood. Credit: Jordan Pettitt/PA Wire

1,700 prisoners released early amidst concerns over probation service

A general view of HMP Pentonville. PIC: Victoria Jones/PA Wire

Justice is not being done when prisoners are being released early

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer spoke to reporters during his visit to Belfast

Yorkshire's largest prison had just eight spaces before emergency plan

Fewer crimes committed by children in South Yorkshire.

Emergency plans to avoid prison overcrowding activated across region

Cutting Deep: The Knife Crime Crisis talks to one of the most hard-hitting anti-knife crime school teachers in the country, and looks at the issues facing young people and weapons.

Knife crime documentary: 'My brother was killed for revenge'

Sajad Hashimi and his wife Zerka Maranay made more than 100 drone drops into 11 jails and young offenders’ institutions.

Drone footage from drug smuggling drop over prison as couple jailed

Born and raised in Leeds, Professor McDermott is the Head of Prisons and Custody at Leeds Trinity University. (Photo supplied by Leeds Trinity University)

Prisons can be places of hope, says Professor Danielle McDermott

'Why send shoplifters to jail, when the criminal justice system is already backed up'. PIC: PA

Ministers need to understand causes of shoplifting - Jayne Dowle

Abigail White has been handed a life sentence for the murder of Bradley Lewis.

Only Fans model who killed partner slams jail’s ‘conjugal visits’ ban

HMP Leeds in Armley is going into "lockdown", according to the POA union.

Prisons including HMP Leeds in Armley to be put into "immediate lockdown"

Leeds Prison (Armley Jail)

Inmates share one-person cells at overcrowded Leeds Prison

HMP Leeds, which received a damning inspection report earlier this year, is among the sites chosen to take part

Troubled prisons to trial £10m blitz on drugs and violence

Prison advertising for a pagan for role in prisons

Prime Minister David Cameron.

Free rein for governors as Cameron privatises prisons

Campaigners in call to tackle sex abuse in Britain’s prisons

Bill Carmichael: Prisoners need skills, not TVs

Time to punish the pushers

Pension protests to continue as Ministers try to hold line

Video: Prison officers back at work after government gets tough on public pensio...

Serco axes 500 UK jobs in worldwide shake-up

G4S drops cleaning firm buyout plan

Prisons to security group G4S abandoned its audacious plan to buy Danish cleaning firm ISS today after a number of its shareholders threatened to vote down the £5.2bn deal.

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Prisons move for ‘danger’ patients

Security firm took inmates to court in taxis

Five days a week of hard work for jobless criminals

Longer jail terms cut reoffending Ministry study finds

Notorious child killer murdered in Yorkshire prison hostage drama

How to survive in prison as a disgraced MP - by Jonathan Aitken

Ken Clarke: Radical reform is needed to break the cycle of crime

Nick Hayns: The private answer for improved services

Monitoring inadequate in prison

Monday's Letters: Who will serve the interest of regional firms?

Monday's Letters: Prisons can be effective if they have sufficient resources

BILL Carmichael's assertion that prison does work (Yorkshire Post, July 2), agreeing with Michael Howard against Kenneth Clarke's latest comments, simply begs the question. What is prison supposed to do?

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Exclusive: Prisons 'in chaos' row as inmates released by mistake

MPs want cut in prisoners