Around 100 jailed paedophiles in British prisons have agreed to undergo chemical castration in a bid to lower the rates of reoffending. Sex offenders at HMP Whatton in Nottingham have signed up to the ...

Inquests have opened into the deaths of three HMP Nottingham prisoners - following five deaths in the space of a month. Two of the men, 29-year-old Shane Stroughton and 38-year-old Anthony Solomon, ...

Safety at Nottingham prison has reached a crisis point, new figures suggest. It comes as a workers' union has warned the ...

Nottingham Prison is not safe enough and conditions are poor, a government report has revealed. The chief inspector of prisons published the findings after an unannounced inspection in September. High ...

A prison officer is “lucky to be alive” after having his throat cut by an inmate. The man, said to have been a new to the job, was taken to hospital after the attack on Sunday morning at HMP ...

The prisons watchdog has demanded action after finding lives are at risk at the "fundamentally unsafe" Nottingham Prison. Chief Inspector of Prisons Peter Clarke used a new urgent notification system ...

A Nottingham Prison inmate was pulled unconscious from his cell after he deliberately set it alight. After the blaze, set by Kieran Welsh, broke out, the air ambulance and three fire engines had to be ...

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