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Prison bosses failed to tell the family of an inmate that he was seriously ill in hospital and had prostate cancer. His relatives only found out by chance three weeks later when they arrived at Strangeways to visit Lenford Lloyd White and he was not there.

Manchester Evening News), after he had been jailed in 2013 for a series of historic sexual offences, including rape and indecent assault against one victim.He was serving a sentence of 16 years in HMP Rye Hill, a category B training prison in Warwickshire, with Sue McAllister, the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman, finding that the healthcare he had received was “not equivalent to that which he could have expected to receive in the community”.The government representative, who investigates every death in custody, noted that Reid had been subject to a “delay” in finding a cell, although she could not say whether that had “affected the outcome for him”.Reid pleaded guilty to four charges of indecent assault against a girl, but denied four counts of rape against the same victim.

Socks, clothes and boxer shorts 'impregnated' with highly toxic drugs were sent into Strangeways for inmates to smoke, a new report into a prisoner's death has revealed.

A Greater Manchester jail has been heavily criticised by the prisons watchdog after officers took 23 minutes to respond to an inmate who later died of a cardiac arrest. Convicted burglar Edmund Carley was serving a 19 month sentence at HMP Hindley in Wigan when he complained of breathing difficulties on the night of May 1, 2018.

A predatory paedophile who repeatedly raped a schoolgirl and molested another girl has died after contracting Covid-19 in prison.

Continuous coughing and suffering from diarrhoea and vomiting, the Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe's final days have been revealed in a prison report.

A woman gave birth to a stillborn baby in horrifying circumstances in a prison toilet after a nurse mistook her labour for period pain, an investigation has uncovered