The Ministry of Justice has responded following reports Southport killer Axel Rudakubana was beaten up in his cell at Strangeways. A viral voice note was shared across social media on Sunday (January ...

Inexperienced staff are being 'manipulated' and 'ignored' by inmates at Strangeways, posing a threat to national security, a damning new report has revealed. It comes amid concerns about 'uncontrolled ...

Plans have been set out to regenerate an inner city area that houses one of the UK's most violent prisons and was once described as the nation's "counterfeit capital". The joint proposals by ...

The Independent Monitoring Board has failed to produce reports on HMP Manchester for each of the last three years, but ...

Nowadays, it's rare to hear of a successful jailbreak from a prison in the UK. Years of lessons learned in the design of detention facilities and modern deterrents such as scanners for those entering ...

Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham says Strangeways prison is "out of date" Strangeways prison should be relocated from its current "out of date" city-centre location, Greater Manchester Mayor Andy ...

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Manchester and Salford councils have jointly released a development masterplan for the area, which includes blueprints to build 7,000 homes ‘across seven distinct neighbourhoods’, health facilities, ...

A prison officer who had an illicit affair with a convicted murderer smuggled drugs behind bars for her locked-up lover, a court heard. Police said messages recovered on Abigail Laidlaw's mobile phone ...

A drone being used to smuggle contraband into the grounds of a prison has been recovered by guards, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has said. It is thought to have been flown in from outside HMP ...

An inmate at Strangeways prison took his own life after telling his loved-ones he only allowed out of his cell for 90 minutes every day, a newly-published report has revealed. Lee Gorst was found ...