A judge has ruled that housing male prisoners in the female estate is unlawful, yet to date prison bosses haven’t complied.

Thomas Haigh was jailed for life for the brutal murders of David Griffiths and Brett Flournoy in June 2011. An investigation into his death at HMP Manchester has been launched

Luke Ashcroft should have been checked on five times an hour at HMP Lincoln but records of cell checks were falsified, a recently published report has said

Andrew Davies, formerly known as Andrew Barlow and Andrew Longmire was given 13 life sentences for his crimes

Government officials hit 13 G4S, Serco and Sodexo jails with financial sanctions as justice chiefs battle a rising tide of female prison officers having illicit flings with inmates in their cells

Ian Huntley's mum, Lynda Richards, "couldn’t recognise her own son" when she saw him after the brutal prison attack which has left him with a 5% chance of surviving

The Soham double murder monster remains in a serious condition after a fellow inmate battered him around the head with a metal bar, during a workshop at HMP Frankland

Huntley was reportedly brutally battered by a lag serving a whole-life order for the murders of two people, and rape and murder of a pregnant mother in Leamington Spa