Figures from the Ministry of Justice show 228 assaults were recorded at Wakefield prison the year to September – up from 222 ...

The serial rapist could now leave Wakefield Prison for jail time in Indonesia after the country’s government offered British officials a prisoner swap. The postgrad student handed a life ...

Michael Spurr, chief executive of HM Prison & Probation Service, said: "I am pleased that the chief inspector has commended the high quality of work being done at Wakefield which is a credit to ...

The officer, in his 40s, risks being scarred for the rest of his life after an inmate allegedly attacked him at Wakefield Prison, West Yorkshire. The prison officer was taken to Pinderfields ...

The cell where Harold Shipman was held in a top security prison was said to be 'haunted' after his suicide in the 'Monster Mansion'. He had been moved into Wakefield Prison's cell D336 ...

Robert Maudsley was locked in a glass cell at Wakefield Prison in West Yorkshire in 1983, after he killed child abuser John Farrell when he was just 21. Maudsley is officially classified as ...

Bronson says his new-found optimism is thanks to jurors at Leeds Crown Court who found him not guilty of attempting to cause serious harm to the governor at Wakefield Prison. Bronson was cleared ...

A man has appeared at crown court charged in connection with a prison attack on Britain's most ... bodily harm to Reynhard Sinaga at HMP Wakefield on 4 July 2023. Sinaga was jailed in 2020 after ...

Two Irish Republican Army (IRA) prisoners have been charged with attempting to fire bomb Wakefield Prison. Report shws Wakefield Magistrates Court in West Yorkshire, England. Police security.

Safety at Wakefield prison has reached a crisis point, new figures suggest. It comes as a workers' union has warned the increase of violence in prisons across England is "totally out of control".