Across the UK, around 12,000 women are imprisoned each year. Majority of the women who enter the prisons have come from a background of abuse, and around 80% of [...]
The increase in ageing inmates...The number of prisoners over the age of 50 has almost tripled from statistics of 4,824 in 2002, to reaching records of up to 13,617 in 2019.Numbers [...]
Jeremy Bamber more than likely fits into the list of the most famous UK criminals. He was convicted of the White House Farm murders in 1985, and to this [...]
Whitemoor was constructed in 1991 at a cost of £58 million – almost three times the initial estimate and opened, with fanfare, by Norma Major. [...]
HMP Woodhill is the seventh high security prison to be examined in our recent series of Britain’s most secure jails. Woodhill is notorious for the number of self inflicted [...]
HMP Long Lartin’s been in the press rather a lot the last two years, for various serious incidents, including two riots, the assault on its governor and four murders. [...]
