The former chair of a prison watchdog has denied "engaging in inappropriate and sexualised contact" with inmates at HMP Liverpool. Helen Spree, of Holly Bank Avenue in Roby, has been charged with ...

which are delivering drugs and weapons to inmates, according to chief inspector of prisons Charlie Taylor. Sources at HMP Liverpool have also claimed that the prison’s introduction of youth ...

The home secretary has called for him to resign or face a recall petition amid outrage over receiving £91,000 MP’s salary in jail ...

Rob Luxford was questioned by a parliament justice committee a month on from an ECHO investigation which found staff held a ...

B-Wing at HMP Liverpool, also known as Walton Prison ... the UK’s prison system came close to collapsing last summer. Inmates were released early in a bid to ease the pressure, as it was ...

Mark Fairhurst, who is both the national chairman of the POA and a HMP ... Liverpool Echo reported that a female prison guard had had her head split open during one incident at the 750-inmate ...

Prisons are also facing new and advanced security threats posed by technology such as drones, which are delivering drugs and weapons to inmates, according to chief inspector of prisons Charlie Taylor.