TAXPAYERS face a £15million bill for an empty prison that may never re-open. The jail will stay shut for at least another ...

A UK prison has had to close down more than 180 cells after radioactive gas was detected, which has also led to the vast majority of nearly 200 recent prisoner transfers. HMP Dartmoor has been ...

The report said the prison had taken on an extra 49 prisoners who had been housed in cells designed for one Dartmoor Prison is overcrowded, understaffed, and under-resourced and fails to provide a ...

Moving the convicts starts on Thursday, with 40 inmates being moved at a time, prison officers say HMP Dartmoor is to close ... and the aim was for all cells to be vacant by the end of the July.

The government is pledging £2.3bn to create 14,000 new prison places by 2031 as part of their 10-year Prison Capacity Strategy.

In February 2024 some cells were showing unexpectedly high ... A spokesperson said: "After close monitoring of the situation at HMP Dartmoor, the prison has been temporarily closed.

A number of inmates have been moved from Dartmoor Prison in Devon after "higher-than-normal" levels of radon gas were detected. The Prison Service said prisoners from the jail in Princetown had ...

A decision is needed urgently on the future of radon-hit Dartmoor Prison, a damning report by the jail's monitoring board ...