A prison from which three inmates recently absconded could soon expand to help ease the national overcrowding crisis. The ...

Vulnerable prisoners inside one of the country’s most overcrowded prisons are being put at risk, a watchdog has warned, after 16 self-inflicted deaths in three years. HMP Leeds recorded the highest ...

Nearly 40,000 prisoners in England and Wales have been let out of jail under the Government’s early release scheme to tackle overcrowding in prisons, figures show. Some 38,042 inmates had been freed ...

Homicides, assaults and self-harm incidents have soared in prisons in England and Wales as the overcrowding crisis deepens, damning new figures show. Seven prisoners were killed in the year to June ...

Overcrowding is putting Scottish prisons under “intense and unsustainable pressure”, inspectors have warned in their annual report. At one jail, prisoners even had to sleep on mattresses on the ...

A report finds cells being shared were often "too small to maintain decency and privacy" at HMP Doncaster [BBC] Shared cells in an overcrowded South Yorkshire prison are "often too small to maintain ...