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The number of available spaces across the male prison estate in England and Wales has fallen to its lowest this year, sources have told the BBC.

Victims of domestic violence and charities are urging the government to stop abusive perpetrators being eligible for early release from prison.

Prison laundries are to be converted into accommodation as the Government tries to avoid running out of cells.

Prisoners freed under the government’s 2024 early release programme are being sent back to prison at an alarming pace, according to prison governors.

A former prison governor has issued a stark warning after new data revealed a "worrying trend" across the nation’s prisons.

White Britons have been forced to convert to Islam by organised Muslim gangs in the nation’s prisons.

The Green Party will consider an official policy of stripping police of Tasers and pepper spray under a new crime plan.

Thousands of sex offenders may be given drugs to curb their vile urges while behind bars, it has been revealed.

Sex offenders and violent criminals are set to face new GPS-powered “restriction zones” confined to areas within a "few miles" upon their release from prison.

One of Britain’s first Net Zero prisons is set to be £150billion overbudget, 10 years’ delayed and deliver just 200 new jail places.

Nearly 350 cells at Britain’s most expensive new prison sit unused despite the UK facing a severe capacity crisis.

Almost 90,000 Britons will become victims of crime thanks to Labour’s prison release plan, new analysis suggests.

Reform UK is in talks with El Salvador over a plan to deport all foreign criminals to the country’s tough jails should it win the next General Election.

Rapists could be banned from getting an early release from prison under plans being considered by the Prime Minister, it has been reported.

Reoffending has hit a record high following the release of more than 70,000 convicted criminals under Labour’s scheme to combat jail overcrowding.

Winners of a violence-reduction competition will be treated to fakeaways in a women’s prison, according to a new report.

The government has announced it will launch a "major" new examination into the security of prisons in England and Wales.

The backlog of trials in Scotland’s highest criminal courts has nearly tripled, due in part to an increase in complex cases involving serious organized crime and historic sex abuse.

Linton Weirich, who was at HMP Wandsworth, spoke out to expose corruption, saying: “Officers don’t run jails any more — prisoners do.”