Fewer assaults on staff were recorded at Wymott prison in the year to June, new figures show. Meanwhile the number of prisoner assaults on staff in prisons across England and Wales reached a record ...

Gillian, from Skelmersdale, described how her world fell apart when she received a call from prison staff the day after her son was found dead. She said she has been told Lee had hung himself. "He was ...

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A child rapist who was sentenced to 15 years in prison after repeatedly abusing a young girl has died in jail after missing hospital appointments due to staff shortages. George Alexander Rose was ...

There were more than 1,000 prisoners at Wymott prison in Chorley last year, new figures show. A penal reform charity warned prison overcrowding and a lack of resources contribute to a "failing system" ...

Officers were called to HMP Wymott in Leyland just after midnight today, August 20, to reports of a drone flying close to its walls. A "suspicious vehicle" fled the scene before crashing and ...

A watchdog has expressed its concerns after prison officers continued to try and resuscitate an inmate who was “clearly dead”. Bill Bissett was found dead in his cell on the very day he was supposed ...

Residents of a small town in rural Lancashire have expressed fury at the government pushing through controversial plans for a new 'super prison' on green belt land. Justice secretary Shabana Mahmood ...

Living next to a prison may offer up mixed reactions. It could be considered to be one of the safest places to live, as one woman who lives across the road from HMP Wymott near Leyland, Lancashire, ...