Tag: UK prison system

There has been a 23 percent surge in drugs found in UK prisons in just one year, with the number of prisoners testing positive hitting a 12-year high.

The number of people convicted of terror-related offences in the UK has shot up by 75 per cent in just three years, the government has said, amid concerns about radicalisation behind bars.

Revealing “a lot of work is being done” by authorities to prepare for an expected influx of jihadis from the Middle East, Britain’s Justice Secretary said the prison system needs an incentive system that rewards “understand[ing of] society’s values”.

A transgender activist who was jailed for killing a partner and for the brutal attempted rape of a female shopkeeper was invited to speak at the House of Lords, it has emerged.

The UK has set up two new ‘separation wings’ in prisons to isolate jihadists and other extremists and stop them spreading their murderous ideology.

Government plans to let people “self-identify” as the opposite sex will put female prisoners at risk, campaigners have warned, after it was revealed that a huge proportion of transgender inmates are sex offenders.

A rising number of prisoners caught with extremist Islamist texts in UK jails is fuelling fears the prison system is becoming a hotbed of radicalisation.

A deal that promised send prisoners from the European Union (EU) back home to serve their sentences and save the taxpayer over a £100 million has been slammed as just a handful a year are being deported.

Radical Islam is “taking hold” in Britain prisons, where a terror attack is more likely than at anytime since the IRA years, a former governor who has conducted a review into Islamic extremism has warned.

Khalid Masood came back from jail obsessed with Islam, neighbours have said, after serving two years for a brutal attack that he tried to blame on ‘racism’.

Nearly half of the boys in the UK’s Young Offenders Institutions (YOIs) are from an ethnic minority group, new data has revealed.

Thousands of foreign prisoners due for deportation have been released into the community without being tagged, Theresa May has admitted, leaving the door wide open for their abscondment. In a letter sent while she was Home Secretary, Mrs May admitted

Muslim extremists at a Leicestershire jail have turned part of the prison into a “no-go zone” for non-Muslims, and are running an entire block under Sharia law, prison union leaders have claimed. Non-Muslim inmates at HMP Gartree, a maximum security

Nearly one inmate a week on average has been mistakenly released from prison over the last decade, new figures reveal. Just under a quarter of those accidentally let go were serving time for burglary or violent offences. According to data