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

Last week, Strangeways was slammed by the watchdog for shocking conditions inside the prison. Reports of the state of HMP Manchester - described as 'squalid,' 'filthy,' and overrun with drugs - have ...

The prison, the red light district and the now banished 'Counterfeit Street'. When you think about Strangeways, chances are these are the first things that spring to mind. In a rapidly gentrifying ...

An investigation is underway into the death of another inmate at Strangeways prison. Milo Lindsay, 38, was found dead at HMP Manchester on March 24. The Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO) confirmed ...

Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham says Strangeways prison is "out of date" Strangeways prison should be relocated from its current "out of date" city-centre location, Greater Manchester Mayor Andy ...

The redevelopment of Strangeways has taken a significant leap forward following the approval of regeneration plans by council leaders. Earlier this month, Manchester and Salford councils unveiled a ...

Prison bosses have launched an investigation after an inmate managed to stage a 12-hour protest on the roof of HMP Manchester. The building, still known to many by its former name Strangeways, is one ...

Emergency services have rushed to a notorious UK prison, after an inmate was spotted climbing onto the roof of the high security jail. Several people reported seeing a prisoner climbing onto the roof ...

A prisoner has finally come down from the roof of HMP Manchester after staging a 12-hour protest overnight. Police cordons have been removed and ambulances have been seen leaving Strangeways after the ...

An inmate has climbed onto the roof of Strangeways Prison in Manchester. A series of witnesses reported a prisoner had climbed onto the roof of the prison - officially known as HMP Manchester - ...

Strangeways’ tower has loomed over Bury New Road for 157 years, a stark 71-metre reminder to Mancunians that some of Britain’s worst criminals are right on the city centre’s doorstep. But the ...

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