Extra protection is being rolled out for staff at high-security prisons across the country following a series of attacks ...

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A prison officer has been stabbed by a prisoner with a knife feared to have been brought into the high-security jail by a ...

Frontline prison officers working in the highest risk areas of the prison estate will be issued protective body armour under ...

Patterson then took the officer's prison handcuffs off him and cuffed him ... Ms Rust said Patterson - who appeared in court via video link to HMP Long Larkin - had 18 convictions for 35 offences ...

An inmate armed with a plastic prison knife who took a Dartmoor prison officer hostage has been jailed. Scott Patterson handcuffed the warder and held him for three hours during the attack at HMP ...

Frontline prison officers working in the highest risk areas of the prison estate will now be issued protective body armour under swift Government action to improve their safety, the Lord Chancellor ...