In an interim report into the state of Britain’s prisons, the former Conservative minister David Gauke this week blamed overcrowding on “knee-jerk” sentencing inflation caused by politicians wanting ...

Charlie Taylor, the chief inspector of prisons, said he was “astonished ... In another jail, HMP Oakwood, in Wolverhampton, ...

Foreign criminals currently in English and Welsh prisons will be deported quicker with the deployment of a new immigration crack squad, the Government has announced. A new £5 million investment ...

Adam Benton, 51, was sentenced at Wolverhampton Crown Court last September ... an independent investigation by the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman is now under way. Express & Star has contacted ...