The prison system is “teetering on the edge of disaster”, with prisoners held in crumbling buildings awash with drugs and violence, the Prisons Minister has warned. Lord Timpson delivered his damning ...
More than half of all people sent to prison have a learning difficulty or disability (LDD), new Government figures suggest. Among more than 20,000 prisoners who enrolled on an education course at an ...
As the most overcrowded of all cat-C prisons, with 66 per cent of prisoners in shared cells designed for one, conditions at Brixton were very cramped. Many cells were dirty and designed with a toilet ...
They say life’s a lottery – but in one American prison, they’re taking that to extremes. Most of the 1,000 men at State Correctional Institution Chester, Pennsylvania, lead a regular prison life, on ...