Chronic staff shortages, food running out and a surge in violence were among the findings of a critical prison report into Wormwood Scrubs. Inspectors also found areas of the west London jail were ...

Graham Gomm gave guards the slip as he was being transferred to hospital from HMP Wormwood Scrubs - a category B men’s prison in west London which houses around 1,000 inmates. The Met Police ...

PRISON staff at the notorious Wormwood Scrubs jail walked out yesterday over health and safety concerns. Members of the Prison Officers Association (POA), who are barred from taking formal industrial ...

A plan to demolish London’s Victorian jails and move inmates out of the capital in a radical prison reform was scrapped when ...

Regarded as one of Britain’s most notorious prisons, Wormwood Scrubs has held a place ... who murdered young men at his north London flats. Today, the prison is graded as Category B but is ...

Four men have been arrested on suspicion of murdering an inmate who was stabbed to death at Wormwood Scrubs prison. Police said Khader Saleh was found with stab wounds at the west London jail at ...

The west London prison had "stalled ... "On all four of our key tests Wormwood Scrubs was less healthy, or at best no healthier, than it had been 22 months earlier. "Our inspectors found ...

HMP Brixton, in London, is perhaps the best-known of Britain’s Category C prisons, and has held a diverse range of prisoners, ...

The prison population in England and Wales stood at 86,089 as of December 9 2024. Of this total, 82,218 were adult males ...

In order to reveal the truth behind the gates of Wormwood Scrubs this 2-part series follows the frenetic lives of prisoners and prison officers who make up this complex, noisy and disturbed community.