Two female prison officers took part in a special rugby match in advance of International Women’s Day on 8 March. The match was played at Newbold-on-Avon rugby club, which is close to the town of ...

“Women are spending prolonged periods locked in their cells, and use of force is too often deployed as a response to prisoner ...

A female prison guard had phone sex with an inmate and flooded his mom with 900 messages to keep the relationship going, a court in the UK has heard. Megann Gibson, 26, also allowed the unidentified ...

A volunteer said it was "quite monumental going from prison to Parliament" after speaking about her experience in the prison system. Charlie Herd was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison in ...

There is no automatic breach of female inmates’ human rights by the presence of trans women on the female prison estate, a Scottish human rights body has told a court. A lawyer for the Scottish Human ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Woking Female Convict Prison opened in 1869 [Woking History Society] Britain's first purpose built women's prison once stood on ...

Anas Sarwar has vowed to ban transgender women from the female prisons "within days" if he becomes first minister after the Holyrood election. The Scottish Labour leader has pledged that his party ...