Visitors to Victorian prisons were caught trying to smuggle in thousands of cigarettes this year while the prisoners themselves got creative to get around the smoking ban. Corrections Victoria ...

A decision is needed urgently on the future of radon-hit Dartmoor Prison, a damning report by the jail's monitoring board says. The decaying Victorian prison is currently sitting empty with a ...

Britain's old-fashioned Victorian "hell hole" jails are set to be replaced with a new generation of "super prisons" under plans being considered by Prisons Minister Beverley Hughes, she said today.

A convicted murderer who stabbed a mother-of-three to death over $50 has been granted release from a Victorian prison to undergo IVF treatment. Alicia Schiller has been given special permission ...

It came as chairman of the Justice Committee Andy Slaughter said some of the UK’s existing prisons are “little more than a human warehouse”. The Labour MP for Hammersmith and Chiswick said: “The ...

Chairman of the Justice Committee Andy Slaughter said some Victorian prisons were akin to ‘human warehouses’ (Jessica Taylor/PA) “And I ask that because if she goes to my constituency of ...