Prison visitor boards used since the Victorian era will be scrapped in a shake-up of watchdogs overseeing jails.

Beneath a busy street in north London lie the reputedly haunted vaults of the Victorian Clerkenwell House of Detention on the English Heritage ...

A Victorian lawyer says a "crisis" is unfolding in the state's jails, with justice facilities so crowded prisoners are instead being kept in police holding cells for up to a month. Mark Martoccia, ...

The untold stories of the women prisoners at a Victorian jail in Newcastle have been told.