Vermin infestations are an “acute issue” across the prison estate, the report found, with inspectors describing cockroach ...

A prisoner convicted of robbery has gone on the run from an open prison. Scott Marchant, 37, was reported missing from HMP Hollesley Bay, Suffolk, after not returning from day release on Saturday.

Prison inmates have been bitten by rats and venomous spiders across England and Wales, a damning new report has revealed. At ...

Michael Spurr, chief executive of HM Prison and Probation Service, said the "prison has already taken steps to improve public protection and implement the report's recommendations". Hollesley Bay ...

The Independent Monitoring Boards (IMB) said false widow spiders nipped inmates at HMP Bullingdon ... conditions in kitchens and on wings. ‘At Hollesley Bay, a prisoner was bitten by a rat ...

showers and on wings – these are the environments in which prisoners are expected to be reformed and rehabilitated. READ MORE: Suffolk prison Hollesley Bay to retain modular units "And ...

New report from Independent Monitoring Boards is a graphic illustration of the human cost of a crumbling prison estate.

A 29-year-old man serving a five-year sentence for robbery has absconded from prison, police have said ... Matthew Smith was missing from HMP Hollesley Bay. The 29-year-old, previously from ...

A man serving a 16-year sentence for burglary has been arrested after absconding from an open prison, police have ... absent at a roll call at HMP Hollesley Bay. He was arrested in Essex on ...