A FORMER prison officer as been unmasked as potentially Britain’s most prolific sex offender after raping and abusing ...

Ninety-one prisoners have been freed by mistake since April this year, it has been revealed. Data, released by the Ministry ...

An "overcrowded" prison where violence is on the rise needs to improve, a watchdog has said. The Independent Monitoring Board's (IMB) latest report said HMP Durham had seen assaults on staff and ...

Former HMP Frankland officer Claire Lewis has called on the government to "get a grip" after Brahim Kaddour-Cherif, 24, was ...

A former prison officer and church minister has been revealed as possibly the most prolific sex offender in British criminal history. Sunday school teacher and scout troop leader Neville Husband ...

The revelation comes just days after migrant sex offender Hadush Kebatu was wrongly freed from an Essex jail instead of being sent to an immigration detention centre. It sparked a manhunt and an ...

There were missed opportunities to help an anxious prisoner who was found hanged in his cell after fearing he was under threat, a report has concluded. Mark Mason was remanded at Durham prison after ...

Rebecca Holloway was serving a 12-and-a-half-year sentence when she was found dead, the U.K. Prison Service said Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

A rapist with “sadistic tendencies” has died while serving a lengthy prison sentence in HMP Frankland. County Durham's Wayne Mansfield bit, punch and beat his victim. While she was still in "great ...

A prisoner has been mistakenly released from a jail in Hertfordshire in the past week, a union has said. The Prison Officers' Association (POA) said the inmate was set free from HMP The Mount on the ...