Inspectors have condemned a violent 'Lord of the Flies' youth jail where teenage inmates dealt 'legal highs' and charged 'rent' for cells A spike in assaults against prisoners and staff and direct ...

A road in the Glen Parva area of Leicester was closed due to a major fire this morning. It led to the public being urged to avoid Little Glen Road while residents were advised to close their doors and ...

Steven Davison, from Loughborough, initially went to Glen Parva on remand on 13 June 2013 A man with mental health problems killed himself at a young offenders institute after he was wrongly judged ...

Another day, another example of a crumbling prison system which does more damage to its occupants than good. The inspector of prisons' report into Glen Parva prison, a young offender's institute, is ...

Glen Parva and Glen Hills Local Nature Reserves are owned by Glen Parva Parish Council, Blaby District Council, the Stepping Stones Project at Leicestershire County Council and Leicester City Council ...

A youth offending facility in the East Midlands has been criticised in a new report for taking criminals from rival gangs in Leicester and Nottingham. The research, led by an academic at Nottingham ...

A notorious young offenders institution has been compared to Lord of the Flies after an official report linked hundreds of incidents of self-harm and several suicides to high levels of bullying and ...

The cost of building a new prison in Leicestershire has risen by £116m from its initial budget, the government has confirmed. The prison, on the site of the former Glen Parva Young Offenders ...

Plans for a new £170 million prison to replace Glen Parva's aging jail look set to be approved. Planning officers at Blaby District Council have recommended councillors approve the demolition of the ...

Darren Whatsize was arrested at the home he shared with his parents in Glen Parva A man who stabbed his elderly father to death in the home they shared has been given an indefinite hospital order.

A report into a young offenders' prison has been criticised as sounding "like an extract from Lord Of The Flies". Glen Parva, in Leicestershire, has been declared "unsafe" by inspectors following an ...

A man with mental health problems killed himself at a young offenders institute after he was wrongly judged "low risk" and was inadequately monitored, an inquest jury has decided Steven Davison died ...