A high security prison’s efforts to combat drug drones are being thwarted by heritage concerns over installing security ...

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 ...

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 ...

But the Local Democracy Reporting Service understands talks between city leaders and the Ministry of Justice are ongoing about potentially closing the Victorian-built jail. “It’s out of date to have a ...

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 ...

A prisons watchdog has failed to produce required inspection reports into HMP Manchester for each of the last three years, the Manchester Evening News can reveal. It has led to a call for reform of ...

An inmate at Strangeways prison took his own life after telling his loved-ones he only allowed out of his cell for 90 minutes every day, a newly-published report has revealed. Lee Gorst was found ...

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.

The wave of development Manchester has witnessed over the past few years is about to reach the Strangeways area, which the council has earmarked for a complete makeover.