Browsing: Prisons

A man who worked as a prison officer and caterer in a youth detention centre was able to rape and torture boys for three decades while…

The justice secretary has revealed that 91 prisoners have been released by mistake in England and Wales since April, and as many as four released in…

Craig was a runaway when I first met him. Missing from a local children’s home, he spent his days hanging out in Nottingham city centre. He…

If anyone was surprised at the idea that a single prison could accidentally release two people within a matter of days, then a brief glimpse at…

David Lammy has said the government has “a mountain to climb” to tackle the prisons crisis and insisted he was “not equipped with all the detail”…

A fraudster mistakenly released from prison this week has handed himself back into HMP Wandsworth, in southwest London, Surrey police said.William Smith, 35, usually known as…

Prison governors in England have been summoned to an urgent meeting with ministers as the government comes under pressure over the wrongful release of two more…

The mistaken release of a second foreign prisoner has forced ministers to re-evaluate their security and release procedures and will once again shine a spotlight on…

Ministers were warned by a watchdog that prisoners were “falling through the cracks” of chaotic release procedures at the jail that mistakenly freed a convicted child…

Five other prisoners have also been released by mistake in the same week a convicted Ethiopian sex offender was allowed to walk free from an Essex…