Some 10,737 foreign nationals were in prison at the end of September, down on the quarter but up year on year.

BRITAIN’S prisons face a staffing crisis as visa rules threaten to force a wave of foreign recruits to return home. There has been a surge in workers arriving from Nigeria and Ghana since 2023 ...

Mistaken releases, where a prisoner had no intent of escaping, have surged at prisons in England and Wales, to 262 in 2024-25 (see chart). This is more than double the number of the previous year, and ...

BEHIND the razor wire and towering walls of Britain’s toughest jails, a hidden criminal underworld is thriving. Ruthless gangs are running multi-million-pound drug empires, ordering hits, and ...

The UK government is planning to broaden a pilot scheme allowing voluntary chemical castration for certain sex offenders, expanding from a handful of prisons in the south-west to around 20 prisons ...

Britain said an Ethiopian asylum seeker who was wrongly released from prison following his conviction for sexual offences, ...

Police have arrested two men on suspicion of murder after the former Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins was stabbed to death at ...

The U.K. government has deported a convicted sex offender from Ethiopia who was mistakenly released from prison last week ...