Paul SeddonPolitical reporterGetty ImagesPrison officers dealing with violent inmates should be armed, the shadow justice secretary has said. Specialist guards should have Taser stun guns and baton rounds - ...

A legal challenge to the prison term imposed on a former school welfare officer and army cadet leader for sexually abusing teenage girls has failed.Judges in the Court of ...

Sarah Spina-Matthews & Tom MullenBBC NewsMat TrewernBBC NewsReporting fromPreston Crown CourtCPSA judge said Kerri Pegg had "betrayed public trust" with her relationship with Anthony SaundersonA prison governor who had ...

Merseyside Police/PA WirePolice are investigating an alleged attack on a prison officer by Southport killer Axel Rudakubana on Thursday, according to a report in the Sun.A Prison Service spokesperson ...

A former prison officer at HMP Swaleside who suffered racist abuse from colleagues has won an employment tribunal.Nigerian-born Uzo Mbonu said he was targeted and ostracised by other officers ...

The investigation into an attack on three prison officers at a high-security prison on Saturday remains ongoing, counter-terrorism police have said. Three officers were taken to hospital with "life-threatening ...

Daniel De SimoneInvestigations CorrespondentSima KotechaSenior UK correspondentGreater Manchester PoliceThree prison officers have been attacked by Hashem Abedi, the brother of the Manchester Arena bomber, a source has told the ...

Brendan HughesBBC News NI political reporterPA MediaThe former Maze Prison, near Lisburn, closed in 2000The architect behind a proposed peace centre at the former Maze Prison site has urged ...

PA MediaKerri Pegg, 42, was seen as a "rising star" of the Prison ServiceA prison governor who began a relationship with a drug-dealing gang boss locked up in the ...

The birth of the baby girl to a Scottish mother and a damming report on Barlinnie make the front pages. Source link

Cleveland PoliceWilliam Dunlop was jailed for life in 2006A murderer who was only jailed for killing a woman after a change in the double jeopardy law will not be ...

Sima KotechaSenior UK correspondentBBCMessages included jokes about someone who was said to be at risk of taking their lifeLeaked messages show prison staff at a Welsh prison laughing at ...