'Fundamental change is needed' following a rise in violence at an Oxfordshire prison, says the Ministry of Justice. HMP Bullingdon, near Bicester, was inspected by HM Inspectorate of Prisons officers ...

Inadequate security at a men's prison is allowing the use of illicit drugs to lead to debt and violence, an inspection has found. In July and August His Majesty's Inspectorate of Prisons visited HMP ...

A prisoner who poured boiling water over a vulnerable fellow inmate before beating and raping him has been jailed for 12 years. Robert Reynolds, a prisoner at HMP Winchester, threw boiling water from ...

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The amount of recorded assaults on staff and other prisoners at the closest jails to Swindon has increased in the last five years. The latest government figures show how often violence is reported at ...

A prison inmate threatened to shoot a probation officer because he believed she was standing in the way of his freedom, a court has heard. Far right sympathiser Nicholas Brock made racial comments ...

Janine Bowater, 25, died after being strangled in Park Avenue, Thatcham, in December last year A man accused of murdering a mother-of-two was found hanged in his prison cell, an inquest heard. John ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Two inmates in a public prison in southern England were tested for the deadly Wuhan coronavirus on Tuesday after a prisoner collapsed in his cell.