A prison worker fell asleep while he was supposed to be carrying out regular safety checks on a vulnerable prisoner who hanged himself in his cell.

Annette Hall, mitigating, said she lived a “chaotic lifestyle” due to drug use but had recently been engaging with support services. Magistrates spared her jail, instead extending the period of her ...

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A woman attempted to smuggle drugs and phones into a Norfolk jail in a pair of trainers, a court has heard.

Hundreds of Norwich prisoners have been let out of jail under the Government’s early release scheme to tackle overcrowding in prisons, new figures show. The scheme was launched as an emergency measure ...