From next year judges will be able to impose extra prison sanctions, the Government has announced. The Prison Reform Trust has questioned the evidence behind the plan.
The men admitted taking part in a prison mutiny that the court heard cost HMP Isle of Wight £9,972.
Two young men already serving life sentences admitted grievous bodily harm after the attack on F-Wing in April 2025. A third prisoner received four months.
A judge at Mold Crown Court ordered the new terms to run alongside the man’s current sentence, but said the Parole Board should weigh any further violence.
New courts in West Yorkshire, Merseyside and Northumbria take the total in England to seven, as ministers aim to reduce the number of women in custody.
The High Court has dismissed an NHS trust’s appeal against a ruling that its rules on handing out codeine at HMP Birmingham indirectly discriminated against a fasting Muslim prisoner.
A love letter found during a search of her car in the prison car park exposed the officer’s relationship with a man in her care.
The 60-year-old killed Dickiesha Nurse in south London in October 2025, shortly after leaving prison under the early release scheme.
Security staff grew suspicious when the man arrived for a social visit wearing two pairs of trousers. He has received eight months in prison.
Three men serving indefinite sentences under a long-abolished law have received fixed terms instead, after the Criminal Cases Review Commission backed their challenges.
