Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood said “we simply cannot build our way out of the prisons capacity crisis” as she opened a ...

They would be imprisoned in the new, purpose-built 'H-Blocks' of the Maze prison and would have to wear prison uniform and do prison work. HM Prison Maze was built on the disused Long Kesh RAF ...

An audacious escape – the biggest from a prison in Britain and Ireland ever, and the biggest in Europe since the Second World War. I’m Carlo Gébler and once upon a time I worked in HMP Maze ...

A Stormont body set up to oversee a £300m redevelopment of the former Maze prison site has said its role has been "essentially limited to health and safety". Plans to regenerate the site near ...

A new £400 million super-prison has opened where inmates will be able to choose the names of their cell blocks and get a say in how it is run. HMP Millsike, in north Yorkshire, has also adopted a ...