New HM Prison and Probation Service figures show there were 341 full-time equivalent staff members in post at Hindley prison as of December. It was down from 365 the year before. Meanwhile ...

An inquest blamed prison staff yesterday for failures that led to a teenager boy hanging himself. Seventeen-year-old Jake Hardy hung himself in his cell at HMYOI Hindley in Wigan on January 20 2012 ...