•Exclusive: Prison Service plans to double up inmates in single-person prefab cells across 10 category C prisons in England and Wales, breaching occupancy safety...
•Burnham faces criticism for maintaining prison capacity at maximum levels. Expert warns of 'big risk' as government reverses early release scheme decisions.
•UK prisons face overcrowding crisis after early release scheme reversal. Officials warn facilities are 'one major event from disaster' following controversial d...
•Andy Burnham restricts early prison release scheme, excluding manslaughter and grooming gang perpetrators amid overcrowding crisis.
•Labour defends early prison release plan to address capacity crisis in England and Wales, preventing shortage of cells for newly arrested offenders.
•Discover how West Midlands offenders clean canals as alternative to prison. Community payback scheme tackles overcrowding with 5m hours annually.
•Prime Minister Andy Burnham announces rapists, child abusers and groomers excluded from early release scheme. Prisoner release delayed to October across England...
•Andy Burnham pushes to exclude child sexual abuse perpetrators from early release scheme. Urgent government talks weigh exemptions against prison capacity crisi...