Increased violence at prison, report finds

Broken lifts, showers, boilers, cell call bells, damaged floors and "shabby wings" were reported, as well as the poor state ...

Monster Mansion is even more violent as damning report published

The unannounced inspection of HMP Wakefield took place in June and July this year, with the inspectors noting a number of ...

Britain's longest serving prisoner marks 17,000 consecutive days alone in his cell

Robert Maudsley has now spent 51 years behind bars, 47 years in a single cell, and faces another 20 years to set a new world ...

Racist killer and mosque bomber dies in Wakefield's Monster Mansion

Self-confessed racist Pavlo Lapshyn, from Ukraine, had been in the UK for less than a week when he stabbed Mohammed Saleem, ...

Family of murdered Muslim granddad 'forgive terrorist killer' as they learn of death in jail

Lapshyn, 37 when he died, was a Ukrainian neo-Nazi terrorist. A highly-educated engineering student with a history of ...

UK's longest-serving prisoner spends his 17,000th day in a row in solitary confinement

The UK's longest-serving prisoner, Robert Maudsley, has spent an agonising 17,000 consecutive days in solitary confinement and is set to endure more years behind bars to make it a world record.

Violent incidents in notorious prison HMP Wakefield soar, inspection finds

Inspectors arrived unannounced at HMP Wakefield in August and found that safety had deteriorated, a report from the Prisons ...

Racist murderer of grandfather, 82, dies in jail

The racist murderer of an 82-year-old grandfather who also plotted to bomb areas close to West Midlands mosques has died in ...