Prison chiefs are trying to prevent violence behind bars by painting the walls soothing colours. England's newest jail, which ...

Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood, who opened the prison, said it "set the standard for the jails of the future". The ...

Inspectors found the prison had the highest rate of positive drugs test among women's jails in the UK and the second highest levels of self-harm ...

The UK government is looking to Estelle prison for ideas - for ways to reduce reoffending and to bring down prisoner numbers in our already overcrowded jails. There's a scheme here they'd like to ...

Overcrowding is forcing prisons to focus on averting disaster instead of rehabilitating their residents, says a report from the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC). MPs on the ...

The number of prisoners in England and Wales has reached a six-month high, despite thousands of inmates being released early to tackle overcrowding, new figures reveal. The prison population stood ...

Police cells will temporarily be used to hold prisoners in a stop-gap measure to cope with overcrowding in jails, the British ...

A pungent smell of detergent and rotten food hits me as we walk through this enormous high-security prison. Inmates press themselves up against the bars to look at us. There are no smiles, only ...