A prison near Wolverhampton is the second-most overcrowded in the country, according to new figures. Sign up to our digest of the biggest court cases heard in the West Midlands each week. Nearly 1,000 ...

More assaults on staff were recorded at Oakwood prison in the year to June, new figures show. It comes as the number of prisoner assaults on staff in prisons across England and Wales reached a record ...

Criminals face working a full 40-hour week behind bars with a tough new prison boss saying:?"Some of them don't know there are two seven o' clocks in one day." Sign up to our digest of the biggest ...

Inmates can stock up on Chicago Town pizzas and Ben & Jerry's ice cream at Britain's first 'in-prison' Iceland branch. The supermarket opened at HMP Oakwood last month to help inmates adjust to the ...