An attack on prison staff by two inmates with bladed weapons is being treated as a terror attack, the Metropolitan Police has confirmed. Four officers and a nurse ...

The MoJ says it "will always ensure we have the prison places we need to keep criminals locked up". Whitemoor lifer Russell Ireland also set fire to his cell and is given another five-year jail term.

Last night the Prison Service confirmed that it had launched an inquiry into the alleged incident which, if proven, highlights yet another major breach of security at Whitemoor where inmates such ...

After the prison officer attack on 14 March ... "Without the swift actions of his colleagues at HMP Whitemoor this assault could have been fatal. Their care in the aftermath of the incident ...

Jordan Crowley, 26, was let out of his cell to see a nurse at HMP Whitemoor, in Fenland, on 14 March on the condition he would return straight away. About 20 minutes later the prison officer ...

is applying for permission to seek rulings that the conditions in which he is being held in the special secure unit at Whitemoor Prison, Cambs, breach his human rights. His lawyers are expected to ...

In a case following an attack in HMP Isle of Wight, the local magistrates court heard a prison officer was injured after an ...

and Whitemoor high-security prisons. He speaks about serving 20 years in prison for the shooting of two Metropolitan Police constables in Brixton, South London, during the early 1990s. Smith ...

Safety at Whitemoor prison has reached a crisis point, new figures suggest. It comes as a workers' union has warned the increase of violence in prisons across England is "totally out of control".