There were more than 1,000 prisoners at Dovegate prison in East Staffordshire last year, new figures show. A penal reform charity warned prison overcrowding and a lack of resources contribute to a ...

Haroon Ahmed, convicted in 2008 of robbing a garage armed with a knife, walked out the main entrance of Dovegate prison in Staffordshire (PA) A robber who escaped from a high-security prison run ...

News of the searches was revealed in prison magazine Inside Times by an inmate at Dovegate - a category B male facility in Staffordshire, which houses 1,160 prisoners. Prisoners at the cushy lock ...

“This report provides more evidence that the prison system as a whole is under intolerable pressure. Dovegate is supposed to be a prison with facilities designed to help prisoners prepare for ...

Mum Kelly Whittingham, 38, was nicked at the entrance to HMP Dovegate. Married prison officer Kelly Whittingham has been arrested on suspicion of romping with a lagCredit: Simon Jones - The Sun ...

Inspectors have linked a recent increase in violence and drug use at a Staffordshire prison to a failure to provide inmates with adequate opportunities for training and enrichment. HMP Dovegate ...

A prison officer, a nurse and another member of staff at HMP Dovegate are suspected of misconduct in a public office, according to Serco, the firm that operates the prison. One of the individuals ...

Latest figures show 15 prison workers and one prisoner had tested positive for coronavirus at Dovegate by October 30. Serco could not comment on anything to do with Levi's situation after he had ...

A female prison officer has been arrested over alleged "inappropriate" contact with a prisoner at HMP Dovegate in Staffordshire. The 49-year-old woman is to be questioned following the arrest on ...

A prisoner was arrested after a 42-year-old inmate at HMP Dovegate was fatally stabbed A murder inquiry has been launched after a prisoner was stabbed to death in a privately-run male prison.

The 23-year-old - of Pitlea Place, in Longton - was being held at Dovegate Prison, on the Staffordshire-Derbyshire border. But he was later moved to HMP Lowdham Grange when the prison was forced ...