With its bright and spacious corridors and rooms with a desk, these pictures could easily be mistaken for a university halls of residence.

A former factory worker from the Black Country who attacked a colleague with an axe has been sent to prison for three years.

A crooked bank cashier who plundered the account of an elderly customer suffering dementia has been jailed for two years.

Improvements need to be made at Brinsford Young Offenders Institute, the chief inspector of prisons ruled today. Brinsford was criticised for having dirty and poor facilities and the limited time inmates spent out of their cells.

A serial conman who set up two fake ebay accounts claiming to sell iPads for bargain prices to dupe unsuspecting customers who never received their goods has been given a suspended prison sentence.

A convicted armed robber who had a sawn-off shotgun hidden in his room was today behind bars after being jailed for seven-and-a-half years.

Villagers and councillors raised concerns over a controversial new prison in South Staffordshire as it emerged the jail could house hundreds of extra inmates.

A man who threatened to set his 83-year-old grandmother alight when she refused to give him money to buy alcohol was today beginning five years behind bars.

The career of disgraced Wolves teenager Jamie Reckord will not be hit by his suspended prison sentence.

More than 2,000 people have applied for 450 jobs on offer at Featherstone’s new £150 million jail, bosses revealed today.