Pava spray will be made available ‘in limited circumstances’ to a select number of staff at three centres holding under-18s.

Ministers are set to face a huge backlash from justice and children’s campaigners who have long warned against using PAVA, a ...

Prison officers will be given new powers to use pepper spray against teenage offenders in a crackdown on violence in youth ...

Prison officers in young offender institutions will start using pepper spray in a bid to combat soaring violence levels from ...

Pepper spray will now be used in young offender institutions - where the rate of assaults on staff is 14 times higher than in ...

Pepper spray will be used in a select number of young offender institutions (YOIs) from this summer after new figures showed rates of assaults on staff were 14 times higher than in adult prisons ...

Giving a speech at an energy summit in London, Ed Miliband read a message from the King. The note said: "While each country ...

In what seems to be part of a recent crime trend, a group of about three dozen bike-riding teens swarmed a supermarket near ...

Frontline officers and young people in custody will be better protected under plans to equip specially selected and trained ...

A 27-year-old woman from Middletown, Delaware, faces multiple charges after being accused of a home invasion and assaults ...

Some 10,605 assaults on staff in male and female jails were recorded in the period up to December 2024, at a rate of 122 per ...

A Middletown woman is charged with forcing her way into a downtown Newark house and pepper spraying several people.