Winchester Prison was described as "unsafe" after a visit by HM Inspectorate of Prisons in October. The Howard League for Penal Reform said the full inspection report, released earlier ...

Winchester Prison (Image: Newsquest ... “I had family members coming to me on visits concerned that the staff were paying other prisoners to commit violence against their family members.

A Winchester man was sentenced to five years in prison Thursday after pleading guilty ... fondled her as many as 13 times when she was visiting a mutual acquaintance’s home.

On a visit to the prison ... Southampton manager Russell Martin held a coaching session at Winchester Prison's gym Another inmate whose name has also been changed, Andy, said: "You've got a ...

INSPECTORS who made an unannounced visit to a Hampshire prison found drug use, debt, rising violence, self-harm and men locked in their cells for up to 22 hours a day. HMP Winchester is a reception ...

HMP Winchester, a Victorian-era prison holding around 690 inmates, was branded one of the most unsafe jails in the country by HM deputy chief inspector Martin Lomas as he issued an urgent ...

Officers working at Winchester Prison were pictured enjoying themselves in the pub next door before heading back on shift last week. Eight to nine staff members, ‘including at least one ...

A prison is so "dilapidated" an inmate was able to remove his own cell door, an inspection has found. A watchdog has called for Winchester prison, a category B jail in Hampshire, to be put into ...

WINCHESTER prison is falling apart amid “very high levels of violence” and needs urgent improvement, the prisons watchdog warned today. Inspectors called for immediate emergency measures after finding ...

Brian Winchester will spend 20 years in state prison for kidnapping his estranged wife at gunpoint last year. During his sentencing hearing Tuesday, a tearful Winchester apologized to his family ...