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Bosses at HMP Wetherby, a 290-capacity jail in West Yorkshire, splashed taxpayers cash on the pump track for inmates to hone their bike skills.

Pensioner Sabine McNeill, 78 - dubbed the 'UK's worst online troll' - claimed there was a satanic paedophile cult operating in Hampstead that cooked and ate babies

Author, editor and Guardian columnist who served 20 years for murder and wrote about his life in prison

Erwin James, who has died in an accident aged 66, stood up publicly for those – like him – who wanted to change their lives in prison and on release. As the first serving prisoner in Britain to write a regular newspaper column in a national newspaper (The Guardian) and, once out, as a speaker, campaigner, author and latterly editor of Inside Time, the national newspaper for prisoners, he both made and embodied a compelling case that everyone deserves a second chance.

James wrote A Life Inside column while serving sentence for murder and later edited Inside Time newspaper

Prison service hands out 100m tea bags a year

Sir Keir Starmer helped to free some of Britain’s most dangerous prisoners in a move described by one of their victims as “ruining” her life.

It was a vicious attack that left Wendy Ballard and her family running for their lives.

Notorious prisoner, Edmund Bruton was jailed indefinitely in 2011 after driving his car at 80mph into his ex-girlfriends home in a jealous rage has been allowed to keep the cash he owed the victim.

Government plans to require rapists to serve their full jail terms will require an extra 3,000 prison places and cost £3 billion, an internal assessment has found.