Jim O'Callaghan will inform government that the prison estate as a whole is currently operating at 115% over capacity ...

The construction of almost 1,000 new prison places is being fast-tracked, as the Republic’s overcrowding crisis worsens, under a plan Minister for Justice Jim O’Callaghan is to present to Cabinet on ...

West Midlands Police has made 74 arrests as part of a crackdown on organised crime and violence in Wolverhampton. Sixty-one ...

Updated plans to exempt developments such as extensions to home elderly relatives, modular homes in back gardens and attic ...

Justice Minister Jim O’Callaghan is set to speed up the introduction of almost 1,000 new prison places – in a bid to ease the ...

Justice Minister Jim O’Callaghan is to tell the Cabinet of plans to accelerate the construction of almost 1,000 new prison ...

A serving prisoner has been given more than two years extra jail time after being revealed as a drug dealer for the 'Jay' ...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves acknowledged ministers will not get 'everything they want' in the spending review due next Wednesday ...

A Birmingham-based director and his company has been ordered to pay a Proceeds of Crime confiscation order, fines and costs ...

Carlton Betts, 28, was found guilty of causing the death of Darren Whitehouse as he was stood talking to a friend on St Marks ...

A CAR thief who stole luxury vehicles before selling them onto buyers in Africa for hundreds of thousands of pounds has been jailed. Hughie Bradley, 31, nicked more than £600,000 of cars from victims ...