An NHS trust has been criticised for failing to meet the healthcare needs of prisoners at London's Thameside prison. A letter released to the BBC shows Serco, which runs the south east London jail, ...

A Thamesmead prison officer has been jailed for smuggling phones in order to share romantic texts with an inmate. Anita Offe, from Bexleyheath, was sentenced at Southwark Crown Court on Friday for ...

A prison officer at HMP Thameside who kicked his attacker in the head has pleaded guilty to assault. Isa Bangura, 34, admitted that he used excessive force in self-defence after he was attacked by ...

Nirav Modi, the fugitive diamond merchant wanted in India to stand trial on fraud and money laundering charges, has been transferred out of one of the largest and most overcrowded prisons in the UK to ...

Prison reform campaigners have called for urgent action at Britain's news private jail, which has been put into "lock-down" in response to the violent gang warfare behind its bars. In an inspection ...

Ged Corbett died just days after he was released from HMP Thameside, a report has said A man was found dead from a drug overdose days after his release from jail, a report has said. Ged Corbett, 28, ...

Police have warned the public not to approach a prisoner jailed for assault after he was MISTAKENLY let out. 20-year-old Rayon Newby, of Ilford, east London, was accidentally released from HMP ...

A Thamesmead prisoner and heroin addict was killed by a toxic reaction to prescribed drugs despite a life-saving antidote being available just metres away from where he was lying dead on the floor of ...