A damning inspection report into HMP Parc in Bridgend said the prison failed to "tackle an alarming ingress of drugs that had led to a spate of tragic deaths" One of the UK's largest prisons is ...

Plans to expand the troubled Parc Prison and house hundreds more inmates have been submitted to Bridgend County Borough Council on behalf of the UK’s Ministry of Justice. The plans handed into the ...

Six officers at the troubled Parc prison have been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office. A South Wales Police spokeswoman said the arrests came after reports of "a series of incidents" ...

The reality of life inside Parc Prison has been laid bare in Parliament with MPs saying prisoners are carrying homemade knives to feel safe, drugs being taken in by staff or dropped by drone, and ...

Troubled Parc Prison could be expanded to house hundreds more inmates and employ over 100 more staff. The news comes just months after a damning report into the Bridgend prison found a failure to ...

14:01, Wed, Apr 23, 2025 Updated: 14:11, Wed, Apr 23, 2025 The inspection found that standards had "declined significantly" since 2022, following the awarding of a 10-year contract to private security ...

A report into the death of a man at HMP Parc has raised serious concerns about how easily prisoners could get drugs. It comes after Lewis Petryszyn, 25 was found dead in his cell in April 2022 with ...

A man has died suddenly at a prison which saw the most inmate deaths in Wales and England last year. South Wales Police confirmed the sudden death of a 49-year-old man at Bridgend's HMP Parc on 1 ...

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A mother who used drones to drop more than £1million of illegal drugs into British prisons has been ordered to repay just £1. Lucy Adcock, 47, recruited a five-man ground crew to drop packages of ...

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