Prisons minister James Timpson admitted it’s going to take 'years not months' to fix the crisis in jails in his first ...

Durham prison is more overcrowded than any other prison across ... prisons to create an extra 20,000 places as demand grows for cell spaces. About 6,000 spaces have been created already and ...

The most overcrowded prison in the country is in ... to the “certified normal standard” of one prisoner per cell - the prison ...

A prison which has seen an inmate allegedly murdered and two others escape in the last year is overcrowded and violent ... programme to install replacement cell windows. It said measures had ...

The prison was "badly overcrowded with worrying levels of violence", the report said Hundreds of inmates are doubled up in single-occupancy cells at a "badly overcrowded" prison "with worrying ...