THE number of inmates at Les Nicolles Prison has fallen.

A PRISONER who escaped from custody while attending an appointment at the Medical Specialist Group has had six months added to his eight-and-a-half-year sentence.

BANNING smoking in the Isle of Man’s prison was the best decision the facility had ever made, its deputy governor said.

TWO former inmates and an ex-prison officer have all said that the decision to ban smoking in Les Nicolles ‘will cause a riot’.

GUERNSEY Prison is to become only the second in Europe to introduce a smoking ban on inmates.

NO STONE was left unturned around Steam Mill Lane, St Martin’s, yesterday, as police searched for a fugitive from Les Nicolles Prison.

A MAN who spent 26 months in prison has seen his conviction quashed at appeal.

LES Nicolles Prison is almost full, with room for just one more prisoner before it reaches its official capacity.

RAPIST Filipe Burton might serve only eight years in prison after the Guernsey Court of Appeal set aside his three life sentences yesterday.

A WOMAN who falsely claimed that she was raped after her girlfriend caught her cheating with a man has been sent to prison for three months and a week.