HMP Durham is 'one of the worst UK prisons for overcrowding' and is almost at twice the permitted capacity, according to the most recent data ...

No female prisons were given the lowest rating. The worst performing prison in England and Wales in the last year was Lowdham Grange, receiving an overall performance score of 42.3 percent.

In the last year, four prisons in England have been issued urgent notifications ... Elsewhere, inspectors said the prison had 'some of the worst conditions' they had seen in recent years ...

England's prisons are over-crowded ... This leads to closure of the worst prisons and all prisons are brought under the control of a national system run by the Prison Commission. It has to submit ...

Britain’s most dangerous prisoners face a US-style “supermax” prison regime after a string of violent attacks on officers.

Perhaps the most significant finding is the fact that the shorter the sentence, the higher the reoffending rate. Reoffending ...

A total of 20 prisons in the UK are to pilot the chemical castration of sex offenders, the justice secretary has said.

Jasmine joined Newsweek in 2024 from News UK and had previously written for ... Newsweek has investigated where the country's best and worst ranked prisons are located. The map shows how each ...

“Prisoners who have been convicted of sexual assault face a higher rate of being assaulted themselves in UK prisons. That said, it does seem like attacks in prison are going up overall,” she sai ...

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