Shabana Mahmood says she will publish a ‘realistic’ plan later this week that will lead to 14,000 extra places being built.

Yesterday (11 December 2024) the Ministry of Justice published its 10-year prison capacity strategy in which it says it will ...

A decision is needed urgently on the future of radon-hit Dartmoor Prison, a damning report by the jail's monitoring board says. The decaying Victorian prison is currently sitting empty with a ...

The Government has announced that Dartmoor Prison – a staple of the Moor since 1809 – will close. Lucy Fraser, the Minister of Prisons, had said that Victorian-era prisons were needed when she ...

We share in the thrill of hope at the sight of prisoners stumbling into the light after more than a decade in hell-holes such as Sednaya prison. But the last ten days aren’t a simple completion ...

Prisoners held inside Bashar al-Assad's notorious ... Torture and severe beatings from guards were used as a regular form of punishment and degradation, often leading individuals to life-long ...

Syrian rebels have freed prisoners — including toddlers — from a notorious, jam-packed prison dubbed the “human slaughterhouse,” where the Assad regime allegedly used an “iron press ...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Bashar Barhoum woke in his dungeon prison cell in Damascus at dawn Sunday, thinking it would be the last day of his life. The 63-year-old writer was supposed to have been ...