Prisoners have been illegally detained longer than their release date and held in “frightening” conditions at a cockroach-infested jail put into special measures by a watchdog. Chief inspector of ...

A cockroach-infested prison that illegally detained inmates for longer than their release date in "frightening conditions" has been put into special measures. Chief inspector of prisons Charlie Taylor ...

A ‘chaotic’ prison released criminals too early – and kept others behind bars too long – amid a series of ‘shocking’ failures, a watchdog has revealed. Chief Inspector of Prisons ...

Senior Labour MP Dame Emily Thornberry has called for the closure of Pentonville prison, which is in her Islington South ...

Inspector issues urgent notification over mice and cockroach infested HMP Pentonville after staff monitoring suicidal inmates caught sleeping on the job ...

The prisons watchdog warned that inmates were being "illegally detained by the state" because staff hadn't calculated their ...

Homicides, assaults and self-harm incidents have soared in prisons in England and Wales as the overcrowding crisis deepens, ...

A commemoration will take place this afternoon in Banna to mark the anniversary of the execution of Roger Casement.

Among other places, he will avoid Pentonville Prison, where Udham Singh was hanged in 1940 for assassinating Michael ODwyer, ...