The new prison comes after the Government began the expansion of 700 places at HMP Highpoint in Suffolk earlier this month and a new 460-space houseblock was opened to prisoners at HMP Rye Hill in ...

Fewer full-time staff were working at Dorset prison last year ... communications manager at the Howard League for Penal Reform, said: "Prisons have been asked to do too much, with too little ...

Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood said “we simply cannot build our way out of the prisons capacity crisis” as she opened a new jail that will hold about 1,500 prisoners. Category C prison HMP ...

Archaeologists have re-dated the Flagstones monument in Dorset back to 3200 BC - more than two centuries earlier than previously thought. According to new research from the University of Exeter ...

The reoffending rate in Dorset was also lower than the rate across ... "The Howard League has seen through its legal work that prisons holding children fail routinely to reach this standard." ...

Prisons are forecast to run out of space again in early 2026 as years of government efforts have failed to create the extra capacity needed, MPs have warned. Plans from 2021 to create 20,000 more ...

A US judge has cleared the way for Luigi Mangione to get a laptop behind bars — if his jailers agree — so he can examine documents and other material in the UnitedHealthcare chief executive murder ...