Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood said “we simply cannot build our way out of the prisons capacity crisis” as she opened a ...

Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood backs sentencing tsar David Gauke's plan for shorter sentences to solve jail overcrowding ...

Farrow, formerly of Cookridge in Leeds, was jailed for life in 2000 for the murder of mother-of-two Mrs Speakes, 51, in Balne ...

Despite this several prisons in Yorkshire, such as HMP Hatfield in Doncaster and HMP Wakefield, the category A prison known as Monster Mansion, had only one space available. Forecasts from the PAC ...

A West Yorkshire council has refused a request to chop down a tree at a women's prison despite it posing a "risk to security" ...

On Friday 14th March, York Crown Court sentenced Oliver Thomas Lupton Lane to six years and ten months in prison after he ...

Police cells will be used to hold inmates as prisons face a capacity crisis with fewer than 800 spaces left across the UK.

The daughter of a woman who was raped and murdered by a shoe fetish killer said she was “shocked and appalled” by a decision ...

The measure comes despite thousands of offenders being released early in September, under a scheme which was designed to tackle the overcrowding crisis until 2026 ...

Christopher Farrow was jailed for life in 2000 for the murder of mother-of-two Wendy Speakes in West Yorkshire in March 1994.