Parents and advocates carried signs reading “Justice for Mental Health, not isolation,” and “no drugs in jail.” Beverly, whose son Mitchell Murphy is incarcerated at HMP, says her son’s mental health ...

Guardians of Recovery, a group formed by Tina Oliviero after she lost her son Ben to addiction, says HMP is a “broken system” that fails to address addiction, mental illness and the basic needs of ...

Helen Spree, 61, was the chair of the independent monitoring board (IMB) at HMP Liverpool before her arrest for misconduct in public office and conspiring to convey prohibited articles into prison.

“My 15-year-old son died. And yeah, my life just spiralled from then really.” We’re inside HMP Downview – one of 12 female prisons in England and Wales. “I feel like I needed help more ...

The former chairwoman of a prison monitoring board has appeared in court charged with having inappropriate relationships with serving prisoners and conspiring to smuggle drugs into HMP Liverpool.

The Prisons and Probation Ombudsman said Reece Pryce, 23, died at HMP Five Wells near Wellingborough on 25 December. There were no further details available about how Pryce died at the category C ...

HMP Dartmoor’s future will be decided in the summer, when the government looks at its spending plans, a prison spokesperson told the BBC. The cost of the lease has more than doubled since the ...

HMP Dartmoor, which is owned by the Duchy of Cornwall, is leased to the Ministry of Justice for £1.5 million annually — and will be for the next 24 years. But the category-C prison ...

A paedophile who was convicted of several child sex offences has died of sepsis while a prisoner at HMP Northumberland. Barry Rossiter, from Walker, had served just over two years of his 26 year ...

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