A new damning report has revealed how staff, prisoners and even inspectors are not safe at Strangeways Prison. The report, published by the Independent Monitoring Board, claims reductions in staff at ...

The prison, the red light district and the now banished 'Counterfeit Street'. When you think about Strangeways, chances are these are the first things that spring to mind. In a rapidly gentrifying ...

They were being held illegally by Strangeways prisoners in their droves. Police say they were being used to 'arrange drug deals, weapon drops and even plan violent attacks'. Now, hundreds of mobile ...

The skies above Strangeways have been 'ceded to organised crime gangs' using drones to smuggle drugs and weapons to some of the most 'dangerous men in the country'. Chief Inspector for Prisons Charlie ...

The narrative of the UK’s deadliest jail riot is retold in this documentary. Inmates seized control of Strangeways jail in Manchester in April 1990, beginning a 25-day siege. The uprising began as a ...

The events, minute by minute, of inmates seizing control of Strangeways prison in Manchester in April 1990. Under the eyes of the nation's press, the siege would last for 25 days.

An outbreak of Covid-19 has been confirmed at a jail in an area where the virus more than doubled in a week. The Ministry of Justice said new infections have sprung up at HMP Manchester but would not ...